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HAPPY NEW YEAR


we visited with friends 
sipped chianti
cooked Chinese
laughed

returned to phone messages:
mother's had a stroke
auntie's heart attack
neighbours just wanted us to know
the ambulance will meet us
in the city

we fill in time shopping, haircuts
journey two hundred miles

we visit the hospital
bring her pink carnations
this sleeping stranger
with iron-grey hair
spilled across her liver-spotted face
our mother

"can't tell anything
"come back later"

relatives gathered in the waiting
waiting room waylay us
"God, we we could all use a drink"

we raise paper cups
salute the New Year
lukewarm ginger ale fizzles
with hopes for ????


                   

copyright 2000 by G. Walker-Hobbs. This poem may be not reproduced without written permission from the author.

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