GOD IS IN THAT ROOM RIGHT NOW.
The call from Don came at four. Y’know I don’t have any idea anymore
what time it was. I was inside it was dark.
I had a dream before the call:
standing around the empty hospital bed and Don is on his feet
beside me. I hear a voice saying, God is in that room.
God is sitting inside my body like a cabinet
I said it myself I said it in the dream
Everything is returning
to normal everything
is pulling in like water creeps inside of itself
at the edge of the world
everything
I walked around upstairs and downstairs with my hands like headlights
saying, Don is in that room again, I promise Don is sitting there waiting.
[POETRY]
[07/28/25]
[07/28/25]
BERNIE BRIDGES is a writer and filmmaker. She loves unlimited refills, small dogs, and when someone helps her with a small task in a gentle and quiet voice. She doesn’t like when other people whistle.