The Poems of David Garlick
Step by faltering step our love was born. Step by step we tested it. Step by step we built it. Step by step, child by child our family grew. Step by step the bonds were forged in love. Step by step we gave and in return received. Step by step and day by day and […]
Sponge baths are alright but my head itched. Please nurse may I have a hot, wet shower. “Not till you have permission from your Cardiologist. Ask him tomorrow.” Tomorrow, that’s ages away. Please, I itch all over. I promise to be good, what ever that means here. “No, you may be better but still […]
I’m in here ‘cos my silly heart has a tendency to plug. It’s probably just sawdust falling down from up above. They treat us well and coddle us but the hardest part of all is trying to sleep through mating calls of the Race Rocks Sea Lion Corps. It’s not their fault they rumble […]
One minute a bustling person, next a mere mortal. She is my friend, we have been together thirty six years. I am afraid. What would I do without her? What of all those plans we have the places still to see? The people we hope to meet, the exotic foods to try, small adventures […]