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Grace Notes
Cara Losier Chanoine
The heart monitor sounded
like a metronome
keeping 2/4 time.
You
were out of place,
shackled to your bed
by machines that did
your body’s work,
by that heart monitor
that made it sound like
your lifeline was as steady
as a Sousa march.
You told me once
that your name should have been Erratic,
that your mother only called you Eric
because she got the spelling wrong.
By your hospital bed,
I counted your heartbeats,
watched the even mountain peaks
on the digital screen,
and prayed for any other time signature:
3/4,
5/8,
something we could dance to.