Chemotherapy
Copyright © 1998 Art.Rage.Us: art & writing by women with breast cancer; a project of The Breast Cancer Fund (Chronicle Books); originally appeared in No Pine Tree in This Forest is Perfect (Slapering Hol Press, 1997)
Tired is a cape in the night-
dark, heavy fur whose warmth stifles
Tired is a long tunnel-
damp, with no lights and sudden turns
It's the woods, windy
and full of sounds of animals, rustling-
snow that melts
and freezes at the same time
a viola bow frayed
from a hundred years of use
Tired from the inside out
I need new words for tired