Emergency Woman

Happy 50th Catherine

I wrote a poem for you.

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EMERGENCY WOMAN

You have this quality of 

being there in emergencies.

  

All kinds of them.

Ones that need a loving touch.  

Ones that need a bandaid. 

Or a full splint.

Ones that need a specialist for consultation — 

you can produce that.  

Emergencies that need
the special touch 

of finding a sock 

or a boot 

or a book.  

Emergencies of the soul.  

You are there for those. 

You are the one who gets a 

thank you note from
the emergency department 

for your quick eye and 

questioning mind about symptoms — 

even to saving a life.  

You take care of
emergencies in the van, 

emergencies on the metro 

emergencies on a plane

and in department stores when one

or the other of us needs to lean on you.

Emergency woman?

You're it.