by Deborah Bayer | Oct 27, 2022 | Poems, Poems (2016-2020)
Supplicant Matins The campanile across town sounds the canonical hours. My sleepless all-night vigil ends when dawn begins to break through the hospital window. My fast is broken when the tray of cold oatmeal arrives on my bedside table. I remove the plastic dome....
by Deborah Bayer | Oct 20, 2022 | Poems, Poems (2016-2020), Uncategorized
Specific Gravity Once my heart was ballast in my chest, so sinkingly heavy I couldn’t stand. I slept for as many hours as there were memories. I couldn’t bear to look at myself, at my bloated face, my dull eyes. As time went on, I learned to throw everything,...
by Deborah Bayer | Sep 15, 2022 | Poems, Poems (2016-2020)
This poem first appeared in the anthology Still You: Poems of Illness and Healing, edited by Joan Baranow, published by Wolf Ridge Press, 2020. Persephone Before I could push a button, the doors closed. I went into free fall, but the cables...
