All night
you breathe
my hyphae.
Your white blood cells seek,
then eat me; snip, stop
my stitch-up.
You won’t face months
of coughing up buttons, dark
mucous plugs.
No x-rays for balls of my silks.
No drugs trying to heal where I left
all my needles.
Caroline Hawkridge,
Writer-in-Residence, National Aspergillosis Centre.
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