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Hospital Rooms
My father is dead now but he was in the ICU once, long ago, after he crashed at the end of brain surgery and had been placed on a ventilator, a noisy beast that huffed and sucked, forcing air into and out of his lungs with the relentlessness of a drum machine. One end of…
Breathless
From the small chair in the farthest corner of the hospital room I can see the sky, now clear of fog, and the tops of the pines. A big crow bounces on a high branch, unfazed by the fractious, gusting wind, searching the ground like a pirate with a spyglass, left eye, then right. Marion…
She Wore a Lapis Lazuli Necklace
Long, strong legs and arms, tan and storkily elegant, high heels, an exotic orange, yellow and blue scarf tied as a headband across her forehead, clamping down an unruly goldenbrown mane, thickly noncompliant. Brassy ear hoops, chunks of ethnic somethings in a necklace or two, blue Nordic eyes, coral lipstick. Swooping through the curves on…