{"id":17346,"date":"2025-02-14T15:20:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=17346"},"modified":"2025-02-14T15:20:32","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T15:20:32","slug":"poetry-hospital-suite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2025\/02\/14\/poetry-hospital-suite\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: ‘hospital suite’"},"content":{"rendered":"

From hospital suite<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

One<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

no matter
\nhow<\/p>\n

the oak ward
\nis word-less<\/p>\n

the light buzz
\nof a garden<\/p>\n

through terminal
\nwindows<\/p>\n

without logos<\/em><\/p>\n

_<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 rationalise<\/p>\n

brother
\nat rest<\/p>\n

_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 through doors
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 down corridors<\/p>\n

_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the sheen of
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sterile floors<\/p>\n

feet walking away<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Two<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

angel
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 blue light<\/p>\n

so
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 far<\/p>\n

angel
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 night-blue<\/p>\n

giro-phar
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 your star<\/p>\n

is<\/p>\n

a light
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lightly here<\/p>\n

a light thing
\n_<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to bear –<\/p>\n

a way<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Three<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

man seeks terminal
\nillness for<\/p>\n

brief but
\narduous journey<\/p>\n

_<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 must like people
\n_<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 must have own transport
\n_<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 staying power
\n_<\/span> \u00a0\u00a0 clean license<\/p>\n

Damien Lennon was Cassandra Voices Musician of the Month in July, 2020.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Feature Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From hospital suite One no matter how the oak ward is word-less the light buzz of a garden through terminal windows without logos _ \u00a0\u00a0 rationalise brother at rest _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 through doors _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 down corridors _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the sheen of _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 sterile floors feet walking away   Two angel _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 blue light so _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 far angel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":17381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[99,1370,1449,2142,2143,2144,2145,2147,2193,7341,8733],"class_list":["post-17346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-hospital","tag-cassandra-voices-damien-lennon","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-damien-lennon","tag-damien-lennon-cassandra-voices","tag-damien-lennon-hospital-suite","tag-damien-lennon-minimalist-poetry","tag-damien-lennon-poetry","tag-daniele-idini-images","tag-poetry","tag-suite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}