My family
the point
zero one
percent
the folks you
stop saying
get well
to because
you know it
only aches
Auntie M
on her
fourth iteration
a benign tumor
benign
that’s not really
true of the brain
poor SIL
Barely part
of the family five years
the youngest of us
first to take
yet
I feel life squeeze
and violently apply
friction’s heat
first pulling away
the blanket
so I can
finally breathe
holding
me up
letting me see
I must let go
of everything
known
jumping
into safety
a leap
of faith
shedding away
long-held pain
allowing myself
to feel
my
feelings
not read
the symptoms
off a sheet
my diagnosis
is blind faith
a child's love
boundless
until the medicine
taints it
K.B. Silver
About the Creator
K.B. Silver
K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.
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