SAVING HENRY Henry is a dummy With plastic skin And placid eyes At five thirty he died By five thirty one He was lifted onto the ice bath We didn’t want to send him To dummy heaven If it ever existed We did compressions Put his head in ice And an IV line in his arm Medications went in Flowing through his blood And stopped free radicals Ice bags around his body Kept the temperature down While oxygen Went into his lungs Saving...

| View | Add Favorite THE ELF A noise awoke me In the middle of sleep Interrupting my dreams The leaves rustled in the breeze And the world dozed In the autumn reverie Of a November dawn When I heard that sound again Carried by the wind Full of morning dew As I went outside The noise echoed around me And the fields looked grey Under the light Of the rising sun Within the infinite shadows Of a bush I saw an elf Crying all alone I covered him ...