—for Cindy So wait, in this persistent vegetative state, lying there, mouth clinched pouty like a child, holding what your fingers fit, knuckles stretched in a purgatorial grip, eyes following nothing but sound. Wait, while doctors and nurses enter, feed you through a tube in a polka-dot room, desperate black, white, colorless believing, a place […]
Teresa McLamb Blackmon
Teresa McLamb Blackmon, MA, MLS, is a retired high school English teacher who spends her time on the farm with adoring animals. Her poems have appeared in Toasted Cheese, Absinthe, and the News & Observer, among others.