Touch: The Journal of Healing
Touch: The Journal of Healing
News of a brother's death
by Katherine DiBella Seluja
Don't kid yourself
it's nothing like a movie
no subtitles to clarify meaning
no forewarning minor key
no change of lens to soften
the edges of scene
only my clinic office
a patient's nebulizer hum
nurses calling pressures from another room
rude light from cubicle window
glare of black-corded phone
and that sudden break in the real
right after I hear Tom say
the police found him in his apartment on the floor
© 2013 Katherine DiBella Seluja
Katherine DiBella Seluja received degrees from Yale and Columbia University. Her poems have appeared in New Mexico Poetry Review, Santa Fe Literature Review and Sin Fronteras. Her chapbook, After the Thread Unravels, was a finalist in the 2012 Bordighera Poetry Competition. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico and dreams in Siena.
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Issue 13, Spring 2013
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