"Fighter"

Fighter    

 

Cool hand on the glass,
warm breath fogging the pane,
I watch you through a maze
of machines and monitors,

your tiny heart beating so fast,

trying to keep up in a world
you weren’t ready to enter.

The nurse says little boys

don’t fight as hard
as little girls to survive.
Not sure why that is; don’t care.

Before me lives a prize fighter,

a classic champion, ready
to throw a knockout punch,
all five and half pounds
settled in the swing.




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First published in Eunoia Review

http://eunoiareview.wordpress.com/2014/07/14/fighter/

July 14, 2014

Eunoia Review

I received another Acceptance Letter this evening from Ian Chung, editor of Eunoia Review. Man, he is speedy. He sent me an email response less than 4 1/2 hours after I sent off the submission. He consistently has remarkable turnaround time. Very much appreciated from the writer's perspective.

"The Poem" is scheduled to be published in early February 2015.   


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