She can no longer donate to the Red Cross Blood Bank as the questions on the survey need a translator.
She doesn’t recall if she has been out of the country in the last six months, had sex with a needle drug-user, or taken any medications from the lengthy list.
It is just too confusing, too overwhelming, a great challenge to lie down for several minutes, allow the blood to run through her veins, filling the pint bag and sample tubes.
Amazing grace
the mind turning to sponge
and eating itself
as well as her life
in the blink of a decade