Wendy Freborg

Indolent

It’s not a word you want to hear              
at a performance review
or
at your child’s school
but
in a doctor’s office,
describing your lymphoma,
“Indolent”
sounds strangely reassuring.

 

https://peekingcatliterary.co.uk/wendy-freborg-three-poems
Peeking Cat Literary Revue February 2022

 

Wendy Freborg is a retired social worker and former paperback editor whose work first appeared in print in 1964 when the magazine Ingenue published one of her poems. More recently, her poems appeared in Rat’s Ass Review, Westward Quarterly, Boats Against the Current and Little Old Lady Comedy. Her life in California includes a small family, enough friends, and too many doctors.