Signet Ring Sonnet For the beautiful one. I know the cancerous signet ring cellsthat the hospice nurses told me about.They also taught me how to help you die.This emaciated body I still loveddraining the ocean of its waning lightits color and salt… Read on blog or Reader The Rising Phoenix Review Read on blog or Reader Signet Ring Sonnet By Skinner Matthews The Rising Phoenix Review June 15 Signet Ring Sonnet For the beautiful one. I know the cancerous signet ring cells that the hospice nurses told me about. They also taught me how to help you die. This emaciated body I still loved draining the ocean of its waning light its color and salt and slurry and fish but I did not leave Earth or cut my wrists. Instead, with your last breath, Heaven fell to me as if love were more than one miracle. One — pink elixir dripping morphine mercy from the drop feeder you were addicted to your mouth a baby birds' cry from the blue swaddling cloth, your eyes, your skeletal limbs your raging heart, your last breath - our final kiss. Click here to listen to an audio clip. By Skinner Matthews Biography: Skinner Matthews is a poet living on Hilton Head Island SC. He strives to write poetry that provides spiritual enlightenment. and he strives to walk on the beach every day with his dog Rudy and memories and inspiration from a life spent loving and living and writing. Comment

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