Affirmation

Affirmation
50
Lois Tschetter Hjelmstad

From Fine Black Lines: reflections on facing cancer, fear and loneliness, Copyright ;copy& 1998 Mulberry Hill Press

The breasts are gone
But I am
Whole

Disfigurement
Need not include
My soul

10/20/02

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