DPF / Reece

For the littlest ones and chaplains, from American Poets, Spring-Summer 2014.

from ICU / by Spencer Reece

In the neonatal ICU, newborns breathed,
blue, spider-delicate in nests of tubes.
A Sunday of themselves, their tissue purpled,
their eyelids the film on old water in a well

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