Tag: cancer

• Resection

  By Lara Haynes Freed Above and to the left ofwhere you once flipped and floated,silent imminent changepromised with each kick—a bulge, like when you were new, promise-ripe,though no pain yet. CT scans (not sonograms)reveal its secretive growth,its indifferent expanse.Tomorrow is not promised, true—still pain doubles in the reckoning, that sudden floodof expectation. Lara Haynes Freed…

  kneebracepress

  December 29, 2022

  poetry

  cancer, diagnosis, hospital, lara haynes freed, metastasis, poem, poetry