About Breath
we’re together round a small screen
like I remember when you were young
round the hearth but there’s no flame
and the doctor is pointing with a red pen
at a cavity between your lungs talking
about lymphocytes which have formed
like a new territory a whereabouts
we’re heading towards and this breath
this every-day in and out is sucked
with a gasp the force of a fist
inside my chest and I am aghast
how my breath I hardly notice now breathes
Gill Horitz lives near Wimborne, Dorset. Her writing has been published in magazines and anthologies, including Mslexia, Smiths Knoll, Frogmore Papers, Tears in the Fence, Rialto and anthologies. Her pamphlet, All The Different Darknesses, was published by Cinnamon Press,.