“Plus
Que
Lente,”
She
Said
From
Her
Bed.
The
Nurse
Watched
Things
Go
From
Bad
To
Worse
As
She
Read
Hopkin’s
Verse
To
A
Woman
Who
Did
Not
Care,
Whose
Mind
Had
Wandered
Off
Somewhere.
More
Than
Slow?
Death,
Or
Life,
Dwindling
Until
One
Can
No
Longer
Know?
She
Looked
Back
At
What
Had
Been
Read,
Then
At
The
Woman,
Now
Dead.