THE PATIENTS -Poetry by guest author Christian Ward

The silver birches undressing

by the railway tracks

are flinging their bandages

to the wind. Rain might

gnaw the wounds, leave them

pock-marked, glorious.

Is that enough to make you

look up, acknowledge the lesions

humming under silk and neatly

pressed cotton?

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The Patients

by Christian Ward

Bio: Christian Ward is a UK-based writer who has recently appeared in the Rappahannock Review, South Florida Poetry Journal, The Dewdrop, Dodging the Rain, Wild Greens, Mad Swirl, DipityLiterary Magazine, Impspired, and Streetcake Magazine.