Drugged/Delirium

By: Barbara A Meier

I wake to a red yarn bracelet

inserted

in my wrist. I said no to the

shadows

flickering just outside the corner

visions

I tried to ignore them as the nurse spoke

loudly

telling me the call button is not a

scream

Barbara A Meier is a writer living in Lincoln, KS. She has been published in The Poeming Pigeon, Pure Slush, Metonym, Young Ravens Literary Review, and The Bangor Literary Journal. She has three chapbooks published: “Wildfire LAL 6”, from Ghost City Press, “Getting Through Gold Beach”, from Writing Knights Press, and “Sylvan Grove”, from The Poetry Box. She loves all things ancient. She works in a second grade classroom and in her free time she likes to drive the dirt roads around Lincoln.

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