Monday, February 26, 2018

June 23rd

I couldn't enter her room without full protective gear. While preparing myself, I told a passing nurse, "She's dying. I just want to hold her hand."

skin to skin
the way you soothed me
as a child

*Published in the February 2018 edition of Seedpods
**2nd place in the UHTS Samurai Haibun Contest 2017
***Selected for the 2018 Red Moon Anthology