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Threading The Light

from Reading The Light by Ross Thompson

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It took thirty-six hours to bring you home
though it may have been more, and it may have been less;
a day and a half in the eye of the storm
of laughing gas and sheets scented with lemon zest.

Something was wrong from the off: a lost wedding ring,
a snippety shift nurse, several botched
epidurals and an afternoon spent watching
your stuttering heartbeat playing hopscotch

on a fuzzy screen. I split my time between
fetching naff sandwiches from the hospital canteen
and telling your mum everything would be alright
when all I wanted to do was thread first light

into your eyes, and slap first breath into your chest,
but the timing was so tight, and the space in the cleft so slight
that I nearly forgot, and I nearly lost faith
but nothing is ever truly lost; it is only misplaced.

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from Reading The Light, released October 20, 2020

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Ross Thompson Bangor, UK

Northern Irish writer.

Debut collection Threading The Light available now from Dedalus Press.

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