Not on the Last Day, But on the Very Last by Justin Boening

Author:Justin Boening
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: 2016-07-18T00:00:00+00:00

pried open

his mouth until

it turned

into a cave,

so all of us

who were there

by choice

(and our children

too) could hear

each other’s voices

inside him: hesitant,

sorrowful,

diminishing.

TWO SURGEONS

It was a snowy night in March.

I had little to do.

So I signed myself

into the ER,

took a penknife from my jacket

pocket, and cut into the chest

of a sweet old man

who was clutching his heart

in the sweaty leather chair next to mine.

Two surgeons, hearing

the man’s inhuman cries,

pushed aside a pack of nurses,

vaulted over a counter,

and knelt beside me

to hold open my incisions.

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