I carry into the hospital waiting area the nameless constriction of my mourning. Boxes of tissue wait on horizontal surfaces. Every voice too loud. Every noise amplified. My mother hiked the Sierras into her 80s. Played tennis until she was 90. Now at 97 she lies with a fever of 102, a needle in her […]
Marianne Brems
Marianne Brems, MA, is a long-time writer of textbooks but also loves to write whimsical poems, which have appeared in Mused, Soft Cartel, the Pangolin Review, and other journals. She lives in Northern California.