Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets' daily poetry dispatch. Read "Sunrise in N 566 at the Royal Jubilee Hospital" by Terri Gower.

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Sunrise in N 566 at the Royal Jubilee Hospital

By Terri Gower

                           After Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet

Morning light seeps

through sheer blinds—

Gulls’ wingtips

dissect the sky,

flesh streaked

clouds trailing behind.

I stretch my IV

cord to the couch

below the window

so I can trace

their dance with

my fingertips.

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Copyright © Terri Gower

 

Terri Gower is an English as an Additional Language Teacher and poet living on the unceded and traditional lands of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking people (also known as Victoria, BC, Canada). She is an associate editor with JLRB Press, an independent, small-run imprint that specializes in poetry. She has a rare lung disease called Idiopathic Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension which often makes its way into her writing. She has been published in Bangs Zine, Tissues PH Magazine, and Gastropoda.

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