JANIS FREEGARD
ocean beach road
prognosis my sister screams my sister screams and screams and it’s
like she’ll never stop screaming
abiosis a startled quail flies into the closed window slowly stops
breathing in the airing cupboard
metamorphosis my sister goes missing from school we find her in the
shoe shop
symbiosis my parents look for answers in the library
osmosis sorrow rises from under the floorboards even the walls
are weeping
necrosis a disembodied rabbit on the carpet its little ears and tail
mucopolysaccharidosis my sister forgets how to draw a triangle how to read
meiosis in the middle of it all a (not quite) baby dies
zoochosis the chicken’s back has been pecked so hard, it’s bleeding
diagnosis even if we’d understood the signs we wouldn’t have been
ready a long slow storm
anabiosis I look in my sister’s eyes for the flame I don’t stop