Ulysses redux
Friday, 05 April 2024
Ulysses redux by Ian Whybrow
24th March 2024
for Dr Jane Wilson-Howarth
She was beset
first by her surgeons,
squabbling modern gods
who kept their council
after she gave birth
to a listless son,
far too disabled to
have any chance of
normal or long life
and little chance
of happiness.
She took him out of
hospital, away
from constant blood tests,
operations, pain,
control of him and her,
to join her engineering husband
with their three year-old,
to mother/doctor on an
island without services,
flanked by the Ganges
in remote Nepal.
There, pale was
beautiful; strangers
admired the baby’s
stitched hare lip; holes
in his heart closed
by themselves.
He fed, he laughed, he lived
a battling, cherished,
three-year,
shining
life.
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