Diagnosis in 4 Charts (“I am sitting”; “Click”; “The doctor believes”; “I do not care”)

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I am in a blue chair silent waiting watching as the drs computer keys click 

Click click click click click click click click click click click click. 

The doctor believes that within five years my central vision will be gone 

I do not care when or when it first began but I fear where it ends in isolation

Sara Lynne Puotinen

Sara Lynne Puotinen lives in Minneapolis near the Mississippi River Gorge where she conducts experiments in writing while moving, moving while writing, and doing both while losing her central vision to a degenerative eye disease. Her poetry has appeared in Longleaf Review, The Account, Door is a Jar, jmww and more.

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