St. Patrick’s Day Toast
Posted By Dee on November 22, 2009
To my enemies’ enemies! The glasses
clink. Rebecca and I laugh at such a malignant
toast. She sits at my left elbow,
Sprite in her hand. I sip a pint to celebrate.
Yesterday was her mother’s mastectomy.
Right breast pruned in an act
of preservation. Needle biopsies
and radiation no longer an option, they took
the grape size lump and 5.35 pounds of tissue.
Rebecca, her hands wrapped around
her glass, watches out the window at blue skies
untainted by even the slightest cloud.
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Carolyn Helmberger is a native of Omaha, Nebraska. She received her MFA from the University of Nebraska. She currently works at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and continues to write poetry, her true love.
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