pictured words

Hospital Room 314

Clanks outside his room
would inspire the old Gandy Dancers’
calls and responses.

When no one is in the room,
the motion-activated towel dispenser

dispenses. 

checking, poking, prodding
in and out of the room
in and out of his veins

Getting him from point A
to the much-needed point B
makes it hard to sleep.

That tracks.

© Marie Elena Good 2026

This is in response to our Poetic Blooming’s prompt #598: Write an on track poem. It is also about my husband, who was admitted for an acute attack of pancreatitis.