Ben Somerville
Evolve
Tell me, am I wrong?
If so, I’ll try again
© 2019 Ben Somerville
Ben Somerville is a musician, writer, and recording engineer. His latest solo work is Entanglement, a rock-folk-funk album which tells the turbulent story of a family started too young (bit.ly/entanglemysoul). He wrote and performed all the instrumental and vocal parts on the album.
Sharon Allerson
Burns cleaned, your chest resurfaced, now your hand.
Ventilator setting low, breathing on your own, come back to us soon.
© 2019 Sharon Allerson
Sharon Allerson, recently retired, taught ESL and College Reading Skills at East Los Angeles College for 30 years. For 12 of those years, she also served as the English department’s Vice Chair. She has loved writing since she was a little girl and dictated her first poems to her mom across the kitchen table. Her greatest passion now is animal rights, proudly aligned with her mom’s view that we need to take care of children and animals, the most fragile among us.
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so moving! Thank you.
Congratulations, Ben! Yours is a very pithy poem. It fits the theme well.
Sharon, hmmm. Come back soon? Ouch! I hope it’s for a checkup?
Good point. I thought is was clear that the person on the ventilator was out of it, basically not consciously with us. I like learning that it could be read differently and that I have to be clearer. Thank you! Btw, he has “come back to us” and, thankfully, will be released from the hospital soon.