PREAMBLES
This couple lean and worn in who never leave their
home town have travelled wait not so patiently for the next stage They’d just
be having breakfast around now and another three hours to go Some flick
magazines young men poke at the net send texts one up very late stretches yawns
lolls low on one elbow he might as well lie down Others stare ahead for a long
time you wonder what each is facing A daughter attempts cheeriness her mother
one foot in a velvety slipper one in dressings as white as eighty-five year old
hair She slumps now in her wheelchair The vascular team arrives a leggy registrar
poses giraffe-like is excited to be in the theatre gets to watch over
shoulders might get to hitch a stitch or two
Another poem from Project 366 - to keep my hospital poems in one place It was posted on December 3, 2016
[Okay it's posting on this occasion as a long column - I don't mind it]
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