Terry Collett Poems

Perhaps tomorrow
I can hang
around with him
Sheila thinks of
...

Sonya talks
endlessly
her Danish
...

I wake up in a panic,
but it is still darkness
my blind eyes see,
having dreamed I saw
...

The sisters(nuns)
at the school
are not happy with you
Mary's father said
...

Una lies in the bed
in the spare room
she can hear movement
in the bedroom next door
...

I want a bath
but nurse Kavel says
sorry Grace the stumps
of your amputated legs
...

I guess I thought
that the pain of grief
would somehow
ease away,
...

Cissy liked cats,
liked to hold them,
kiss them,
feel them purr
...

She sleeps.

There is exhaustion.
...

Sheila sat
opposite
her sister
...