Richard Stevenson
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Complications After My Wife's Emergency Appendectomy
(a Haiku/Senryu Sequence)
appendectomy --
her Buddha belly
smiles with a tin grin
*
staples, not stitches?
easier to take out
the doctor explains
*
while her belly grins,
the marmot three floors below
digs holes
*
groggy from the Percs --
birds chortle and titter,
re-assemble sky
*
doctor's appointment --
her incision lips
tight too
*
morphine in the ass --
so she can sleep through her pain
and hear the birds
*
in Morphia now --
the cat below her bedroom
walks an angled plank
*
more surgery?
delphinium blossoms bob
under the bees' weight
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Richard Stevenson lives and teaches in Lethbridge, Alberta.
His most recent books are Parrot with Tourette's
(Black Moss Press, Palm Poets Series, 2004),
Alex Anklebone and Andy The Dog (picture book,
Bayeux Arts, 2005) and Flicker At The Fascia
(Serengeti Press, 2005).
E-mail: richard.stevenson at shaw dot ca
More information on Richard Stevenson’s new books
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