SEAN LYNCH - HALO NEST

Sean Lynch is a poet who lives along the Delaware River in Camden, NJ. He is the editor of Whirlwind Magazine. You can find more of his work on www.swlynch.com

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                            Halo Nest
 
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Along the reluctant blue
of Camden’s Cooper River
there is a hospital,
an unassuming monolith
adorned with a stone statue
once cracked by an earthquake
now sealed and standing stoic
where a spotted hawk nests
amidst the halo of the virgin mother
beyond the 6th floor window
where my own mother fights
the fire spreading through
her stomach - though she sits
unphased by the word cancer;
she sits as still as the gray tomb
of Whitman below us in the hillside,
and still in stillness she’s never been
so full of life.