For Keith

							                                   Successful Resuscitation

Deborah L Schultz MD


First in the distance
Then closer,
Closing in.
Sirens shrill
End
This night’s silence.

Fool. Run. Escape.

Patio door unseen
Glass shatters
Around
Through
Him.
Femoral artery severed,
Life pumping,
He runs--
Not far--
Falls face down
In cold white snow,
Now warmed and reddened.

Strange.

Capture-Trial-Punishment
Combined.
Successful resuscitation of body
Mind
Lost somewhere
In scarlet snow.