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Suspension of Respiration
Tuesday, October 4, 2016  4:48:00 AM

by Carol Dee Meeks



Poetry
This Shakespearean Sonnet WON

Dear Carol,
It is a true pleasure to inform you that you are one of the honorees in the Thirteenth Annual International Ultra-Short Competition sponsored by The Binnacle at The University of Maine at Machias. This does not mean that you have won any of the cash prizes, but that we would like to include your work, “Suspension of Respiration,” as an Honorable Mention in our 2016 Ultra-Short edition. Congratulations!

We received over 850 submissions from twenty-one countries and six continents, many of which were worthy of inclusion in a volume such as this. From this gathering of excellent works we chose fifty-seven
pieces, including yours, which we felt had the greatest merit. From these fifty-seven works, five were selected as cash prize winners (poetry, prose, humor, fantasy, and poetic prose).



At night my husband roars like thunder ‘cross
the plains, and he enjoys his snoozing time.
The midnight noise erupts my rest. It saps
my pep. He shakes the doors in snoring songs.
Inhaling wars, exhaling air too fast,
explodes, when tissue cloys become enlarged,
and he ignores my ploys. I poke his sides
like encores in a play, to make him turn.

But changing styles can mute a stertor sound,
like loss of weight and sleeping on each side.
If respiration stops or partial slows,
avoid all fruit, cold medicine on shelves.
Like Aesop’s myths, a doctor’s date renews
a life of joy, clear nostrils, chops the blues.



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