Sick/ ill

sick/ill

(12/20, 1998)

First Place   bedroom window   closed against the lilacs   morning sickness                       Rob Krevitz Second Place   home sick   limp eucalyptus leaves   dripping with rain                       paul mThird Place   sick in bed   needles of rain between   me and the pines                     Alasdair Paterson   BELOW Third PLACE   pruning   the rose garden   during her last illness                            hilary tann      sick with cancer      lying in the bed      he built last year                          Dennis H. Dutton         breathing in         my father's illness         on his birthday                          Timothy Russell           in the December sun           coughing,           even my shadow looks sick                                      ==Leanne                tangled sheets -                the restlessness of illness                in the quiet night                                    Alison Williams                   the cycling vicar                   enjoying the sunshine                   visiting the sick                                        Max Verhart                      on her sickbed;                      the sway of lights outside                      on the passing floats                                             Joseph Kirschner   hospice windowsil -   a parient nurses   a sick poinsettia                     jean king      show biz collie      in the sick children's ward      every hand gets licked                              Ferris         final illness         the first snow         doesn't stick                       -willard            sickness --            black and white bathroom tiles            become shades of gray                                   - hortensia anderson             ill in a hotel:             the elevator chime             rings rings rings                                Charles Trumbull                the beached ill whale                rescued and returned                to the sea                              Betty                    old and sick in bed --                    young child brings the sun                    mirror from other side                                            emile molhuysen                        sick in bed -                        origami microbes march from                        crumpled Kleenex                         copyright 12/14/1998 by Wendy C. Bialek

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