Portrait of my Grandfather as Cerberus

He has watched so many of the dead
slink sleepily past him, grumbling
to himself in his grey-stained voice and has not followed, tight-

rooted to his chair, later the needled
drip: in the Lethe of morphine sometimes reciting
their names

as blue machines echo
his ventilated slow whine of return.

Cameron Clark

 
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