After surgery he surfaces drowsy from anesthesia sees his wife by his bedside reaches out his hand feels her shoulder blade relieved he sighs “No wings! I am alive!”
About the Author: Agnes Vojta grew up in Germany and now lives in Rolla, Missouri where she teaches physics at Missouri S&T and hikes the Ozarks. She is the author of Porous Land (Spartan Press, 2019) and The Eden of Perhaps (Spartan Press, 2020), and her poems have appeared in a variety of magazines.
Image Credit: Karl Wiener “Komposition aus ‘Pflaster und Wiese’ X (1924) Public domain image courtesy of Artvee
As It Ought To Be 
Oh, to have an angel always by your side.
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