Displaced Bowels

Tragi-Comic Scenario..coz u always have to see the funny side. Frantic drive from ferry to Mater-Dei  to visit concussed brother..it is 12am and he is obviously befuddled...he tells me doctors say he might have to be operated on because of a 'detached rectum', I am perplexed..go to find nurses who stare at me as if I am crazy...after eons and getting lost in the bowels of a very not very securitized hospital, I find myself retracing my steps back to Emergency, whilst googling 'detached rectums' and totally puzzled how something like this can happen in the first place (major evacuation?) only to find out that all along they were talking about 'detached retinas'!!!...anyway luckily he doesn't need op.

I Want To Recall You

I WANT TO RECALL YOU

Once you were 
and now you're not


In the space that surrounds me


you are vague and intangible


filtered light through slatted shutters


dust motes hovering over plumped out pillows


on the vacant armchair


where you used to slump


Once you were warm


and soft in my arms


Now I screw my eyes


and I try to conjure you
out of afternoon shadows


on the streets we used to tread


but you remain insubstantial


an elusive dream


a wisp of memory


I cannot recall