Furrow
that last Sunday you wanted
to hear my family making lunch
the clatter of kitchen noise
you weren’t feeling well lying in bed
so I laid down with you
and we talked took a selfie
I almost asked you if you were afraid to die
and two weeks later you faced it
with what can only be called grace
the pain mostly contained by morphine
I watched you go the drugs
not quite enough to smooth the furrow in your brow
Maureen Clark’s “This Insatiable August” was released by Signature Books and received Best Poetry Book of 2024 from AML. Her memoir “Confessions of a Once Upon a Time Mormon” is forthcoming by Hypatia Press. “A Country Without You” will be coming soon from BCC Press.
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