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Counting Bruises
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Goose eggs, hatch free, bleeding out, painting me purple-green in side effect to the exact medicines meant to save me. Bruises rise in number, erasing my fair skin. How quick the cure, an over-riding flood, if I took one pill, or thrice too many, bleeding out complete, drowning from within. The math would be easier then, one big wound, no flesh.

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Reviews of "Counting Bruises"

Reviewed by Randall Barfield

Reviewed on October 16, 2006

sort of haunting this one is. one is afraid to ask after it. it's quite terse(is that the word?) which is good in my view cheers

Reviewed by C. Gourlay (Reader)

Reviewed on June 4, 2003

this is so well written, packs a powerful punch and gripped me where it hurts. great stuff.

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya

Reviewed on March 31, 2003

powerful write...BHUWan

Reviewed by Eroica Mendoza (Reader)

Reviewed on March 30, 2003

ohhh anne.... this one hit me.... bruised my heart....

Reviewed by A PAX

Reviewed on March 30, 2003

medicine heals....
and so does the mind....
all the best to you
A

Reviewed by Aamie Burnley

Reviewed on March 30, 2003

... a troublesome state of mind. poetry purges.

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on March 30, 2003

powerful mathematics...

Reviewed by James David Compton (Reader)

Reviewed on March 30, 2003

WOW...powerful piece.
So sad that many times, the treatment is worse than the ailment, and sometimes harder to watch.
-James

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