Brittany Frasure
Sick

Sleeping with sick
alters what’s within grasp
like valleys where trees grow in sand.
Pillows of powder seep through
the waters of my brain, and the effect
is offensive, gritty,
only a delay of already dwindling parts,
which will come to carry
my stride from its strain.
Sometimes I wonder
if life has really been worth
all the breathing
in and out.

Brittany Frasure, of Paintsville, a BSCTC alumnus, is now a student at Pikeville College.