Home again

Before they let me go home I had to prove I could walk...even with braces and a walker, I was stunning, Stunning, I tell you. Then they did the "wheelchair exit," The standard "wheelchair exit"

I retreat

From another run

At the hospital.

It feels like football

Though that’s not a sport

I have ever

Followed.

They drenched my body

With antibiotics

Dangled the threat

Of more physical therapy.

I thanked them kindly

Or maybe

Not so kindly.

Here I am at home

With my beloved

The cats

The turtle

He opens and closes his mouth

He says

Blueberries

Blueberries

Blueberries.

He has had his beak trimmed

Thanks to a visit

From my sister.

We are all home.