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before and after i remember water touching my body differently as, still whole, i lay in that last hot bath. now i discover a freckle beneath where my breast once was and feel a newness come over me. i ask God to tell me he loves me and he answers through the taste of a sweet, Summer peach. water pours over a scarred, curveless mass, and i am cleansed. |
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suddenly, life changes the diagnosis, 5/17/00 i sit on the edge of a cataclysmic abyss straddling the horizon on a day made of clay, as sand dissipates under my feet and i dream of falling. |
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drifting the smoothness of cool, wooden floors the careful thought to color the scent of oil permeates as your fingers touch a broken body. i drift through scattered ivies peering through pristine windows sitting beside my fragile dreams. |
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"before and after" and "suddenly, life changes" were published in "The Cancer Poetry Project" by Fairview Press, 2001.
they were again published by OncoLink, a website sponsored by The University of Pennsylvania, in Sept, 2002.
http://www.oncolink.com/coping "before and after" was also solicited for a calendar produced by Ortho Bio-Tech Products, L.P., 2001. |