Jo Morris Dixon

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it feels like I’m trapped in a Chekhov play

[she sits on an armchair in the living room
the sun is shining in an inconvenient way]

my sister has been diagnosed with bone cancer

[the cat called Lulu is staring through the window
her owner has just put their house on the market] 

my sister’s tumour has successfully been removed

[she pulls the wooden coffee table closer with both feet
but nearly causes the remote control to fall to the floor] 

my sister’s tumour might have been growing for years

[she looks up at the light bulb which must be replaced
but she has an irrational fear of being electrocuted] 

my sister had surgeons operate on her for six hours

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JO MORRIS DIXON’s poetry has been published in Oxford Poetry, The Poetry Review, Poetry Wales, Ambit and The Signal House Edition. I told you everything is her debut pamphlet, out now with Verve Poetry Press.