In for the moment

her eyes shine with light
the ward is bright
the beds two to a room

"I miss you" she speaks
sitting beside him
Hes staring past the
mesh screens down
to the well kept lawns
the small pine trees
stretching away to
the tree line

"I miss you"  he echos
all of this has changed
the ward  the feel

He remembers the
trestle  the smell of
the ties  the water
alive and shinning
below

her hair clip holds back
a bang

"hows your mother"
how many moments
has he fallen
left them

here this safe vantage
point full of sun
moonlight
full of others out
past the edge

"she's fine"

he sips the coffee
with shakey hands
that she has carefully
brought all this way
on the bus up the highway
to the Hospital

they sit like this
through the thick
and now the thin

she takes him off ward
down to the canteen
he follows at ease

the sadness burning off
like a mist come daybreak
the dusk sun filling up
the halls

at night he dreams of
the trestle and of wolves
drinking from the stream
below

she is standing with
moonlight in her
hair like a halo