Tuesday, May 4, 2010

By Small and Small: Midnight to 4am


Painting by Loong Schin Hem


" By Small And Small: Midnight To 4 a.m."

For eleven years I have regretted it,
regretted that I did not do what
I wanted to do as I sat there those
four hours watching her die. I wanted
to crawl in among the machinery
and hold her in my arms, knowing
the elementary, leftover bit of her
mind would dimly recognize it was me
carrying her to where she was going.

Jack Gilbert

Posted over on Larry John McNally

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