Extended Care
Extended Care
By M.W. Field

In the hall to your room,
I pass question marks
with walkers

next door to you
yesterday’s roving exclamation point
lies sedated, restraints again loosened

please, linger here awhile
dealing in commas, quotes, ellipses
no full stop

M.W. Field’s poetry has been published in Canadian Literature, Event, Snapdragon Journal, and other journals and anthologies. Origami Poems published her downloadable microchap, Winter’s End, in fall 2022. Her previous chapbook, The Sapphire Morpho, won the 2001 bpNichol Chapbook Award. She has created poetry animation on film and also writes scripts.

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