Friday, June 1, 2012

Joanna Howard


My mother sucks air into flaccid lungs
and turns purple expelling each breath.
Like the last runner, dogging on, despite . . . .
Bulging eyes fix on the tattered yellow
tape, she will not give up: to catch her thoughts,
she loses her pace: her push to exhale
drifts beyond muscle and even memory.

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