twenty-six: weight

It’s hard to imagine an environment more saturated with socially constructed ideas about hetero-normative masculinity than a college gym.
Yet here, one man holds another’s hands in a way that is unconventional and so very strong.
One of the men happens to be nearly paralyzed, with no control over his hands yet still has power over his arms, the other able bodied, clasps the hands of his friend around this odd contraption.
They work together, making the wheels turn, at times the lines blur between who is spotting whom.
Some go to lift weights,
They go to have weight lifted.