Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Chart Rack

Neatly arranged,
each in its slot.
White labels form a picket fence,
straight and orderly.

One post for each patient
whose doctors fight all odds,
never give up, never surrender.

But overnight a faerie hand
has painted one post orange.
It glows, the amber sun of a granted wish:
She is set free into twilight.

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