02/17/2023
https://littleredtree.com/the-cancer-diaries-book-one-flood-warning/
We are honored to present a very special book. "Cancer Diaries: Book One - Flood Warnings" by W.F. Lantry. Tasked to write a poem a day, this book is a collection that capturing the journey of his wife's cancer treatment. The title poem:
Flood Warning
A quiet evening. Dark. And rain outside—
They say we’ll get four inches before dawn.
I’m in the kitchen while she sleeps upstairs.
Another day of biopsies, x-rays,
of ultrasounds and needles for the pain:
she’s not supposed to pick up anything.
I’m cooking, listening to Keren Ann
whose voice reminds of Paris in the Spring
how many years ago in rain like this:
“The only things I still know how to make
are water ripples on the waveless Seine.”
And me? I’m making rice and eggs. Young James
still has an appetite, and needs to eat.
Outside, the rain keeps falling, and the wind
moves through the leafless trees of early Spring.
I stand and stare at nothing, at the wind.
I cannot see into this foreign dark
where songs and shadows merge with endless rain.
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