Flash Light Tag
You push me into my coat
and off the porch steps
I hear you shout
as you leap frog over my head,
and start running,
blending into the trees
in the backyard.
I pick myself up
and I follow
you
tripping over my shoelaces.
Heart Surgery
In a hospital room,
you hold your girl
as they prick her finger, her arm, her heart.
and you calm her
and kiss her
and give her away to a doctor
who is going to cut her open.
You smile till she’s gone.
Then you’re gone,
the you that held it together.
And I remember you
and me
in a hospital room long ago.
My eye cut open
by a sister and her bike gear
and I wanted you out of everyone else
to come with me.
At the Hospital, my first visit,
you stand beside me as they thread the needle
preparing to sew me up.
You held my hand
as they patched the cut under my eye.
hunched down,
holding your body to itself,
bravely waiting
for that baby to come back to you.
And I wish I was there to hold your hand.
To Paigie
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