The Name She Gave Me by Betty Culley
Author:Betty Culley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2022-03-03T00:00:00+00:00
Spell
The heavy hospital door
clicks open
and wakes me up.
Someone turned off the lights
in the room,
but the green numbers
next to the red heart
on the monitor
read 68 72 64 67.
Mrs. Tibbetts is sitting in the chair
next to me,
wide awake,
her feet up on my bed.
She watches the monitor, too.
Laila RN pulls the curtain,
and Dad is there
in his garden jeans
holding a garlic bag.
When Dadâs in a hospital,
he looks like a person
who time traveled there
from the past.
Maybe because when he was
growing up,
he never went to a hospital.
Instead, when he was sick
the doctor came to the apartment
and gave him a shot
with a long needle.
Dad had diseases
people get vaccines for nowâ
measles, mumps, and chicken pox,
and even an old-fashioned one
called scarlet fever.
He told me stories
about what it was like.
They kept me in a dark room
until my fever broke.
They tied mittens on my hands
so I couldnât scratch.
Laila takes the blood pressure cuff
off my arm,
and disconnects the monitor.
They said your little spell
is over, and your heart is fine,
Dad says to me.
Nothing to worry about.
I donât answer
because Iâm thinking
about what Dad just said.
If itâs true,
who put the spell
on me?
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