Wednesday, April 15, 2020

I started counting ambulances

because when you live near a hospital,
the sirens muffle all the birdsongs.
I want to believe at least one of them
carries a woman in labor,
bringing a new hope into the world,
even though most women I know
took a bus or a cab to the nearest hospital
to have their babies, some of them even drove.


NaPoWriMo Day 14

4 comments:

  1. No sirens, helicopters, airplanes close by ... only the early morning sounds of birds signaling each other and an occasional train whistle.

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  2. Love this. Hope you are well~Jen

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  3. Where, oh where, are you hiding? Come out come out wherever you are.

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  4. Missing you and your poetry .....

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