Cardiac ablation is the art of treating heart rhythm irregularities with freezing. Not like musical statues at our wedding, where the music stops, you freeze, and when it starts you dance. There will be scars. These stop abnormal impulses. Nothing reaches that part of the heart again. The feeling’s gone.
Rosaleen Lynch, an Irish community worker and writer in the East End of London, has words in lots of lovely places and can be found on Twitter at @quotes_52 and 52Quotes.blogspot.com.
I let her save me. Let her fish me from the sea and drag me to the shore. Push water from my lungs. Breathe for me. Bring me back to life.
She was afraid of everything until she realised her own strength. And how much I needed her to live.
Rosaleen Lynch is an Irish community worker and writer in the East End of London who pursues stories conversational, literary, and performed. She has words published in Jellyfish Review, EllipsisZine, Fish, Mslexia, The London Reader, Litro, and other lovely places and can be found on Twitter at @quotes_52 and 52Quotes.blogspot.com.
The paper cranes are folded from receipts for doctors, buses and climate magazines, from my five year old’s drawings of our family, prescriptions for her meds, sweet wrappers and cigarette packets, and hang now to be counted, over her hospital bed, one more for every day since she didn’t die.
Rosaleen Lynch, an Irish community worker and writer in the East End of London, pursues stories whether conversational, literary or performed and believes in the power of words to make the world a better place.