beneath the buzz of florescent lights
I complete a petition to the court
hand written in a tremor of black ink
my observations the patient’s statement
the gun all documented
then hand it to the social worker
with the caveat This is my son
Lynn DeTurk, a retired psychiatric nurse practitioner, now practices poetry. She is seeking a publisher for her first full collection, Kaddish, A Song For Two Voices.
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