"Hunger" and "No Lily Pad"

Hunger

Slowly fed
Into the mouth
Of the MRI
As if a hostage
Slipped into a cave
A mausoleum
Or movie
Monster maw
Soothing music
Earphones deliver
Fails to compete
With this device’s
Clatter and clamor
That’s kin I bet
To sci-fi junkyard
Dynamos digesting
Manned spacecraft

 


 

No Lily Pad

Rub the grey bulb
As if a lucky charm
And it might be
Just that
For a squeeze
Signals distress
And a nurse will
Hop to your rescue
Like a childhood toy
Frog inspired
By a similar pump
Of fingers or hand
Gusting air
Through a tube
Much slimmer
Than any MRI
Employs

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Thomas M. McDade
Thomas M. McDade resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Formerly Connecticut and Rhode Island. He is a graduate of Fairfield University. 
 
Thomas is twice a U.S. Navy Veteran serving ashore at the Fleet Anti-Air Warfare Training Center, Dam Neck Virginia Beach, Virginia and aboard the USS Mullinnix (DD-944) and USS Miller (DE / FF-1091). His poetry has most recently appeared in The Horseshoe Literary Magazine