Things My Wife Left in the ICU

Category: Poems
written by Paul Rousseau | September 18, 2020

A pacemaker and defibrillator

Sheets pressed hard with suffering

Seven fingers and one arm, gangrenous dead

Unknown liters of blood

Failed kidneys

Scarred lungs

A sclerosed heart

A contagion of bacteria

Two daughters, one husband, one sister

Dignity

Hope

Sadness

Her life