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Your Recovery

John Grey

I can’t get away from them -
TV, the internet, twitter,
even talk around the water cooler -
celebrities have assumed the role
of the center of the universe.

But then you call me -
you’re out of hospital.

At last, news sends me a gift.
It doesn’t care who’s dating who
or wearing what designer dress.

I can imagine you seated on your patio,
family around you,
setting sun drenching your face.

You’re coddling a wine glass in your wrinkled hand.
You’re distanced from the superficial
by a canyon of heart and mind

The wine, I’m sure, tastes like the earth and growing,
like the land that spreads before you,
a family history in blades of grass and fences.

A smile plays out
beneath your warm farm-girl eyes.
You doze, contented, with the past around you,
dream a year not yet lived.

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