Kate Grisim

SICK KIDS

Listen to Audio Version read by Jill Khoury.

wandering pristine hallways—lost
but together—a dysfunctional group
who just happened to fall
into the I'd-rather-be-anywhere-but-here
place that ordinary children go
to become extraordinary

at night, under starched sheets
trading secrets of diagnoses
as if each one were detailed
on baseball cards
that could be traded
for a better outcome

no one noticing one slipping
out the door; another one
taking their place
before anyone realizes
they have gone

Kate Grisim is a second year student in a Disability Studies Masters program in Manitoba, Canada. She was the first writer of The Disability Project: Summer a Writer-in-Residence at a grassroots writers collective in summer 2014. To read her blog during her residency, go to www.mylittlecrippledheart.wordpress.com .