Das Quintett
The tiny musicians are poised
Ready to play the piece
Each has spent much of
Their days, months, lives, practicing
Rehearsing, a homage
They are equally spaced, all five,
on a sturdy, wooden, plank,
teetering on the tip of a jagged rock
Jutting, out of the sea
The sky is a grey
The bow of a small sail boat
Can be seen to approach,
carrying the cancer
You would not suspect it
While the music plays
Each note carefully crafted
Like a scalpel
cuts through the cool sea breeze
To the wooden boat
Carrying the cancer
Copyright 2025 Suzann Heron
Bio:
Suzann Heron is a poet, multi media artist, and psychotherapist living in
Shutesbury Massachusetts
Donation Appeal:
To help victims of cancer and to help foster continuing research into this deadly disease, please consider donating to either The American Cancer Society or The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Thank you.
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