Easy to blame
it on fever
but the being
made of light
sat by her bed
brushed her arm
with limb of white
so that she would know
she would survive
Easy to blame
it on imagination
Easy to dismiss
vision born of desperation
But maybe you know what that’s like?
Maybe you’ve been in that bed?
Kimberly L. Becker is author of Words Facing East; The Dividings (WordTech Editions), and Flight (forthcoming, MadHat Press). Her work appears widely in journals and anthologies, including IDK Magazine, Panoply, Indigenous Message on Water; Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence; and Tending the Fire: Native Voices and Portraits.