APRIL ABATTOIR

April Abattoir 

The month of showers indeed

Mist

the bad news

Sprinkling

the inevitable fading

Overcast

the expected decline

Calm

the final transition

Trickle

the still warm touch

the last release of air

the flatline

Torrents

Gales

Sheets

after the earth

has taken back

all that comes

after the birth

The Alive and the Dead

alone in the dark

April 10, 2018

Tressa Lee Breen

Abattoir: slaughterhouse

Father deceased 13 April 1995

Grandfather deceased 28 April 2000

Grandmother Mary deceased 13 April 2014

Mother deceased 14 April 2015

I should spend all Aprils in a safe room in a medically induced coma.