New Poetry by George Young

The Wound Dresser

At noon, if you’ll just take a walk in the park, sit

on the green bench by the ale-colored pond and wait

she’ll come to carefully lift

the blowzy bandage off your wound, cauterize

the gaping hole with warm sunlight

and stuff it with soft white gauze from a cloud.

O you’ll limp back to the office feeling better—

but of course the wound is fatal.

- © George Young 2023

George, a retired internal medicine physician living in Boulder,  Colorado, has had two full length collections of poetry published: “Spinoza’s Mouse,” Washington Prize, given by Word Works, and “The Astronomer’s Pearl,” Violet Reed Haas Prize, given by Snake Nation Press.