A fluttering leaf, Tossed by fleeting gusts, Passive in each gale, I am not. A rock, fixed and unyielding, Cold, untouchable, Unbreathing, Not me. Instead, fluid and free,…
It was 4:30 a.m. and two days before Thanksgiving at Jane Phillips Medical Center. Fluorescent lights blazed like eternal daylight on the ceiling of the labor room. The room’s once…