Gloria
can you
learn how to place an iv
hitch
hiking an emergent vet visit
on your
way to San Diego
his
teeth spattered
raindrops
wrapped in
a
tourniquet blanket the size of family
you
raised him
alone
run with
your thumb out
sobbing
catheters
trying
to save a dead dog.
- Kip McMillan 2016
Kip McMillan is a bilingual poet in Spanish and English living
in Boone, North Carolina. She is a student of nursing and Spanish at
Appalachian State University. She hopes that nursing can cure things that
poetry cannot and vice versa.
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