*Between breaths, a postcard poem by Drew Myron*

Everything is a long pause between breaths

Everything is a long pause between breaths
as you navigate the final months weeks days

The hours twist ever tighter in spirals of complication
and you hang waiting at every door

You sleep longer deeper and need all
kinds of light

At the end discomfort is
disease filtered through leaves as you

move toward the much loved
places and patterns of life

You are a tree reaching for sun surprised
to find a tapestry of dark and light

— Drew Myron

More Postcard Poems:
Wintering
Questionable

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