Friday, October 16, 2015

At the Cancer Clinic Comments

Rating: 4.0

She is being helped toward the open door
that leads to the examining rooms
by two young women I take to be her sisters.
Each bends to the weight of an arm
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Ted Kooser
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Stephen Loomes 30 June 2018

If you take them to be her sisters, and they are young, then she too, must be young and very ill with funny knit cap, a signal of chemotherapy in contrast to the crisp white sails of the nurses clothes. Abject misery measured against sororial love, patience from the sterility of health and clean white sails, and of course the waiting maw of the examination room; stark but good.

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susan thorkildsen 03 October 2018

So is your review! !

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Ted Kooser

Ted Kooser

Ames, Iowa
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