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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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