Dissociation Curve
Lindsay Clark
| poetry
Loving you, child, was running at sea
level after training at altitude. Thin air
trained my blood to scavenge. I learned
flight in reverse: sinking from the mountain
top to scoop you from the estuary. My
heme disbelieving the easy breathing.
How swiftly I oxidized, radicalized. And
you, free—how reversibly you bound me.
Lindsay Clark is a resident physician of Family Medicine. She lives in California with her family.