Second Screening
I gaze at my imperfect breasts,
Scarred by two other operations
And wonder what I’ll feel
If it is third time unlucky.
It’s odd that losing one
Would terrify most women,
But with me, it’s thoughts of
Leaving things undone, unsaid,
Of no longer being there
That scare.
So if my figure goes,
Who cares?
Joyce Walker is a retired administrator. Has had poetry and stories published in a number of magazines. She won 1st prize in the Writers Brew story competition in 2002 and was runner up in an Erewash Writers Flash fiction competition in 2013. She took 1st prize in the Writers Forum Poetry competition in July 2016. She loves the First World War Poets.