Poetry Diversified by Poetry Matters Literary Winners 2012

Author:Poetry Matters Literary Winners 2012 [Poetry Matters Literary Winners 2012]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780984014248
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2013-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

ADULT WINNERS

Room 232

There are pretty rooms in this hospital,

rooms with wallpaper borders and fabric valances

over windows framing a sweeping view of

the surrounding hills and heaven-bound steeples;

rooms with custom built closets and shelves

and mirrors to see yourself smile.

This room is not one of them. This room is

yellow. Tired yellow. Not the yellow of sunrise

or ducks or spring balloons but the same yellow as

the chair in the corner, the spotted linoleum on the floor,

the metal inserts dividing the ceiling tiles.

This room looks out over the graveled rooftop of

the elevator shaft, whirling turbines the only testament

to fresh air. This room feels like a room where

old people die and he’s in it, and I’m in it, and

there’s no turning back.

There is a framed print on the wall of two white swans

gliding through a turquoise stream surrounded

by spring blooming plants in pinks and yellows and

anchored by a solid stone bridge crossing from one

peaceful shore to the other and

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