Two Poems by Timothy Cook (poetry ’08)
“Comorbid” and “Frankenstein’s Monster” by Timothy Cook (poetry ’08), published by [PANK].
Comorbid
Among the living & the dying,
IV bags filled with blood
or chemo meds, air disinfected, floor
& walls antiseptic & machines
humming. The narrative
less important than
the documentation, lost
on a crashed hard drive,
red marker circles around
all the puncture wounds in my
forearms from blood
tests & MRI contrast injected
while my body lay prone
on a plastic slab.
[… continue reading “Comorbid” and find “Frankenstein’s Monster” at [PANK].]
