the V.R.5 collapse: the ankle keeps its own barometer
The ankle throbbed dully in the snowstorm’s low pressure.
Context
The chronic injury reads the weather. Flat on the V.R.5 carpet, the one line that surfaces from the body itself is the ankle "throbb[ing] dully in the snowstorm's low pressure" — the damaged joint has become a standing instrument, registering the barometric drop the way the rest of him registers dread. The regimen's accumulated cost doesn't announce itself; it just aches, quietly, on schedule, whenever the pressure falls.