“Mercy” by Susan Okie (poetry, ’14)

A contest-winning poem by Susan Okie (poetry, ’14) appears in Hospital Drive:

Mercy

And what about that winter night in Hartford
when a mother brought two kids
to the hospital, afraid she’d hurt them?
Something ticked her off, whatever the resident
said just made her madder:
Give me my kids I don’t need this
I can take care of them.

A nurse shoulders us

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