Listens to watch
Watches as it keeps
Tick tock ticking
Feels stars super nova in her
solar plexus
Fills her with warm humming
Hum like radiator humming
Radiating heat
To face flushed with fever -
ed cheeks cooled by chilled palms
Inevitability hangs over head
noose waiting for neck
wringing pale hands
lips numb and cracking
cracked that glass
seven years passed
a haze of tears
tearing
thin skin of wrists scented with
camphor, menthol
& lemon tea sits stewing with sugar so sweet-
Vitamins
From the vital man
Who said “get well soon”
Sooner than expected
a Nurse without patient
impatient
her movement
Without thought
Thought-less about the written word
Wrote those words
On lined paper
Between the lines
reeling with situation
unreal
Scent lingers absorbed by material
Of materialism
Belongings not belonging
To her
Parting with so many things
That mean no thing
Tangible proof of existence
Evidence of entrance after
exit
pages of flipbook stuck
together we grieve for a ghost