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six minutes in room eleven

brown eyes wild with panic 
sweat at her brow, blood on the bed 
a barely-life, seven years in the making 
cold gel on her belly, then 
a flutter on the screen – 
the glass in her eyes shatters into tears 
and he’s not supposed to but 
dad hugs me through a blue plastic gown

six minutes in room eleven, Literature by Ellen Gilbertson, MD

Ellen Gilbertson, MD

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