A Change in the Air My lungs seek a change in the air space to breathe without pain a step outside gasping sips I seek skies without the cloud of dust hovering above us like a lid closing instead the skies are blue and clear as skies should be my lungs seek a change in … Continue reading A Change in the Air
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Chasing Oxygen
Training the lungs fighting scars and aches recreating the body into a new machine meant for mountains and the sky - Caroline A. Slee
Lungs
Winded, I rise to the sky chasing the oxygen in the air deflated, breathless, graying out staggering a winding trail through polka-dotted space Winded, I cut through the waters trying to create a practice of breath entering and leaving these laboring lungs despite the damage they claim Winded, I fight with the ropes at my … Continue reading Lungs
Orders
The computer becomes just another window bringing the world indoors as I remain at home in a parallel space while chaos reigns outside. My existence is reduced to walls and a roof beautiful and comforting, yet still I pace the floors in an agitation trapped through no fault of my own. I wait for the … Continue reading Orders
Asthma
It brings the parade Of all the Greek suffixes "The study of..." As though I am a faulty machine A misfiring engine to be corrected It brings the experiment First one medicine and then the next And then the answer Eventually To continue all As my dreams are broken By lungs screaming As my days … Continue reading Asthma