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we the Poets

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Breaking Silences

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Breaking Silences, cc&d v173.5 front cover, 2007

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cc&d v170

CRAIG HOSPITAL, DENVER

Cindy Forsburg

It’s clinical,
but they use a disinfectant
that smells remotely like flowers.
Sitting in the lobby,
a pretty girl lost to trauma
stares out into space.
She’ll never speak again,
but the nurses speak to her,
smiling every time they pass
with “hello” and “how are you.”
Out in the parking lot,
the people with new wheelchairs
learn to negotiate curbs
on a street
they hadn’t planned to travel.

Later in the afternoon,
look for them up in the skyway,
where the walls are windows
and the light is warm.
They’ll be reclining
under watch of mountains,
tilting back for a change of blood.
Weight shift, they call it,
cradled in the arms of the sun.



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