Poem
Kathryn Daszkiewicz
NIL BY MOUTH
NIL BY MOUTH
NIL BY MOUTH
Another stroke, and, as if it were a birdyour swallow vanishes. Flies off
at the start of a bleak season
on the blue scythe of its wings.
Your mind, flitting across some other
sky, is closed to us, our futile
bedside twitterings, is perched
on a cusp between worlds
seeking finer air. While
the dark screen of poplars beyond
the hospital window
obscures our view
of heaven.
© 2008, Kathryn Daszkiewicz
Publisher: First Published on PIW,
Publisher: First Published on PIW,
Kathryn Daszkiewicz
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1961)
Kathryn Daszkiewicz was born and brought up in Gosforth, near Newcastle, in the north east of England and studied English at Leeds University. A former student of the creative writing MPhil at Glamorgan, she now lives in Grantham, Lincolnshire, where she works as a teacher.
Kathryn did not start writing until her early thirties and since then has been widely published in magazines including The ...
Kathryn did not start writing until her early thirties and since then has been widely published in magazines including The ...
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NIL BY MOUTH
Another stroke, and, as if it were a birdyour swallow vanishes. Flies off
at the start of a bleak season
on the blue scythe of its wings.
Your mind, flitting across some other
sky, is closed to us, our futile
bedside twitterings, is perched
on a cusp between worlds
seeking finer air. While
the dark screen of poplars beyond
the hospital window
obscures our view
of heaven.
NIL BY MOUTH
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