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thoughts on ward r

(the Philadelphia Naval Hospital, winter, 1969)

 

thoughts on ward r

there are dark
haunted spaces I visit.

holes
drilled halfway
through the bone
and left
to fill up
with little terrors
that come in
under the door at night.

they shake me
by the shoulders,
then disappear.

who cut those spaces
and how deep?
are they everything
I ever turned away from
and I just can’t see?

Tracey - on Oct. 11 2007

This definitely has a medicinal twang and hospital feel to it -- the bleary-eyed place in which terrors crop up unannounced. The nurse shaking your shoulders -- or was it something else? The questions looming large as the person rests small in a sterile bed in a huge place. Another gem in your war collection.


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Norm - on Oct. 11 2007
Thank you, Tracey.
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