Kaleidoscope by June Stepansky - HTML preview

 OPERATION

They wheel me to the operating room.

Before the anesthetic overpowers me,

I hear the nurse say,

“I never saw anyone fight so hard.”

I am a quiet fighter

given to pursuing phantoms,

formidable enemies.

This time, I survive

my loss of consciousness,

and go forth, like Don Quixote,

to tilt again at windmills.