- Blood on All Your Shirts
Even your skinny ribbed undershirt Your favorite blue guayabera A long life of travel ends in seepage Holes in the skin Difficult comebacks The graft and the duct and the valve Flirting with nurses a hopeful distraction Maybe they’d prick you more kindly If you listened to their marital woes Telling how deft and lovely they were How ruddy their cheeks Angelic their smiles [End Page 199]
Naomi Shihab Nye lives in San Antonio. Her most recent books are Honeybee, I’ll As You Three Times, Are You OK? and You & Yours.