Different Slants

 

 

 

© February 2009

 

 

 

Bad cut

on

My leg

From a

Rusty old nail

 

Swelled

Like my knee

 was

Blowing a bubble

 

I

Slowly limped

into the

ER

Frightened

Seeking

A pill

and

A smile

 

The grey-haired and serious

Intake lady

Lifted her glazed eyes

from her

Beeping computer

took

one look

At my pregnant knee

and

Knitting her eyebrows

 

Like she was

Makin’ a baby’s sock

 

Put down her pen

and

Made a call

 

 

Big white  

Hospital doors

Crash open

and

Out came

this

Vision

this

Scandinavian

Goddess

 

Tall

Built

Blond hair

Bouncing

as

She 

Walked

 

All of her

Bouncing

as

She  

Walked

 

Not

Walking

Flowing

 

A Vixen from Valhalla

 

So close to me now

Her long-lashed

Sea-green

Eyes

So concerned

Opened

Wide  

As she neared me

 

Her

Soft red lips

A

Flame

Searing cross

Her

Snow white skin

 

 

She took my

Trembling

Hand

Gently

 Pulling me

Into

The wheelchair

She was pushing

 

“You can’t go home”

She purred

“It’s too serious”

 

I looked up at her

Pushing me

Dazed

 

Her

Heroic breasts

Straining

Her

Tight

White

Uniform

 

Blocking

My

View  

of her

Fabulous

Face

 

“Go home?”

I

Whispered

“I don’t want to go home”

 

As

Wonder Woman

Rolled me down

The

Gleaming

Hallway

 

My

Mind-numbing

Pain  

Was

Great

 

 

But

She

Was

Greater

 

 

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