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[jmichiko]

A Cautionary Tale

as she bent down to pick him up,
she felt the
pop
like pomegranate seeds falling on linen,
a thousand small blooms opened up
and sent her jumbling in shudders
splashing bright rosy garlands
next to his shocked silent frame

later, in the hospital
she couldn't make out the meter
of the hisses and drips
not quite random,
not quite