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Board Administrator Username: mjm Post Number: 3636 Registered: 11-1998 |
Honorable Mention Purple Heart (pantoum) Kathy Paupore I saw the ventilator breathe, I heard it hiss, fill lungs with air her small heart patched, mends in this cold aseptic hollow I heard it hiss, fill lungs with air through snakes of slithering tubes, in this cold aseptic hollow blue to red circulates, blood flows through snakes of slithering tubes oxygen sustains her life's rhythm blue to red circulates, blood flows through veins, heart, arteries, lungs oxygen sustain's her life's rhythm, my faith in machines for recovery through veins, heart, arteries, lungs I saw the ventilator breathe. |
