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Dark Poetry #4

sickroom (4)

JenniferMaxwell

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since 2006-09-14

Posts 2423

0 posted 2007-09-28 09:31 AM

herbal tea, throat lozenges
wastepaper baskets
puffy and weightless
filled with tissues
aloed and lotioned -
a rain forest died
for my drippy red nose.

a fever bed
with fist pummelled pillows
that lost their cool
side three days ago
stuffed with down
gone lumpy flat
and goose feathers that poke
through ticking and stick
into my bed head
and the lines
of my pillow scarred cheek.

linen as droopy white
as a surrender flag
semaphores to the world
the virus has claimed
another victim
buried alive under a pile
of tossed and turning
quilts and coverlets
in a sickroom shrunk
by weariness
down to the size
of a flu bug.

[This message has been edited by JenniferMaxwell (09-29-2007 12:09 AM).]

Temptress

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Member Rara Avis

since 1999-06-15

Posts 7136
Mobile, AL

1 posted 2007-09-28 05:25 PM

"pillow scarred cheek"

thats my favorite line in this, and I think you have an interesting way of describing being sick.

"...buried way beneath the sheets
I think she's having a meltdown..."
"Buckcherry"

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