Hospital in Blue Dark
By Deborah Allbritain
Featured Art: “Estuary” by Mateo Galvano
All things said at the end have been said.
Her wool beanie pulled over her ears.
Horizonal bones laid out on the bed nearly
prehistoric, she is.
How do I get out of here, she keeps whispering to no one
and I think of the artist Richard Diebenkorn
who said that the aim is not to finish, but oh
great bonfire, I keep losing my train of thought.
Night-blooming jasmine is fertilized at night.
Can you smell it yet?
The little bear in her arms is still.
Deborah Allbritain book “Osgood” was published in May 2024 by Brick Road Poetry Press. Her work has appeared in Beloit Poetry Journal, fugue, Thrush, Barrow Street and numerous other publications. Upcoming work will appear in Ploughshares. Deborah was the recipient of the Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize in 2017.
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