On his birthday
my friend, Michael,
will have an MRI.
His neurologist
wants to affirm
or rule out
suspected
Parkinson’s.
For now, his
diagnosis is
essential
tremor. Not
essential to me,
Michael laughs,
as if diagnostic
labels were a joke.
Martha Christina has published two collections: Staying Found (Fleur-de-lis Press) and Against Detachment (Pecan Grove Press). Her work appears in earlier issues of Red Eft Review, and recently in Star 82 Review, Crab Orchard Review, and Tiny Seed Journal. Born and raised in Indiana, she now lives in Bristol, Rhode Island.
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