Like the line turn bridging stanzas 3 & 4.
Bill
On 10/12/2012, at 11:14 PM, Patrick McManus wrote:
> Hang in there!!
> P
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> *Each day passes the next
> like ghosts in a dark hallway.
>
> You sit in this dim room
> holding your dying cat.
> Her heart beats against
> the palm of your hand.
>
> You turned the lights down.
> The windows darken to black.
>
> She gasps for life, then
> does not breathe, then
> gasps again. You find your-
>
> self in the hospice room,
> quiet voices on the other side
> of the door. You listen
>
> to your mother's breathing.
> This tabby manx has kept you
> company for seventeen years.
>
> Tomorrow she will not wake you.
>
>
> *
>
> --
> sharon brogan
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