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Kelly Jean White

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    My father naked

    -even iron wears out

    lifting himself against the bedrails
    struggling like an old man

    and he was an old man
    suddenly
    legs scaling like peeled
    wall paper
    monitor leads pulled off
    buzzing buzzing shrilling
    red lights

    I was afraid to touch him

    an old man
    wild and forgotten
    scanning blank walls
    for another story
    afraid

    I was afraid to touch him

    me, who knew hospitals
    helpless
    to move bed rails
    shift catheters
    adjust O2

    I backed away

    said it was out of respect
    for his modesty
    said I
Kelly Jean White