Marilyn Humbert
we speak of simple things cloud patterns in a square of sky mottled light across your lap a drift of jasmine coiling the window ledge the views from a chair my life outside ignored you share daily happenings along the polished corridor residents shuffle past with hellos eager for tea and cake the meds trolley’s rattling wobble muffled shift-change laughter a nurse’s almost silent steps I leave you watching white cockatoos wheel across your patch of sky chittering, dangling lorikeets in a grevillea
Marilyn Humbert lives on Darug and GuriNgai land in Berowra, NSW Australia. Her tanka and haiku appear in International and Australian journals, anthologies and online. Her free verse poems have been awarded prizes in competitions, published in anthologies, journals and online most recently in Poetry for the Planet Anthology and FemAsia Magazine.
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