Denise Dix, MD

Yesterday came and went

Mother's Day 2010

I sit here today listening to the metronome on the piano

ticking a slow beat, in the cavernous Putney

I shoot a few pictures, my want,
and discover that I can see over the Clarke Hotel
across the street to a distant
far view of 'hospital hill'

Madison Street climbs the steep hill
to the hospital and other environs
Craigie and I used to hang out in a rented house
at the dog leg to the left, near the crest

Mother Denise climbed that hill
over and over
when I was sick
(of livin' and skeered of dying)

Kept a long year's watch
night and day
(day and night,
I was the one......)