Tagged: lungs
perhaps the first breath
perhaps the first breath
taken after a hostage
situation is
more, even more expansive,
like scarred lungs learning to adapt
.
20210120:2022
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in the middle of
in the middle of
the night, we
deal with sudden
pain the only way we know
how – Vivienne, screaming
at the top of your
fifteenth-month-old
lungs for ten minutes
at a quarter to two
makes as much
sense as any
while the rest of us lie
achingly still
in the dark, perhaps
hoping to be picked up
.
20170118:0204
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vivienne, you are
vivienne, you are
exercising those powerful
lungs from the second
floor, ready for a lifetime
of song and dance, some shrieking
.
20161005:0745
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the neighbors upstairs
the neighbors upstairs
are rehearsing their
three a.m. scene
again – two
pairs of god-given
lungs made of the
same brilliant mettle,
awake and stirringly
alive, a private
performance for
an audience of
at least twenty
families – he thinks
she’s overly
dramatic, she
thinks he should
go to hell, and
the majority of
the action
creaks stage left
.
20121022:0739
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