Visiting Hours Are Now Over

Excerpt

Most often

afraid of discoverers,

a strangler

steals into rooms.

Sometimes,

she strides into wards brazenly,

a distant bitchy relative

from the City,

accustomed to taking freely.

Othertimes,

he walks in welcomed,

the Good Joe,

there to end a conversation

well-ended.

Afterwards,

the nature of the visitor

rests in the visage

of the stilled patient.

Nevertheless,

the living are left alone.