Pale Rider
metallic cloud of anesthesia hanging over
the horse-drawn amnesia of halothane
pale rider
somewhere between
heaven and hell
day and night
birth and death
born back into the light
from this limbo
dead-weight of limbs
saddling a soul to earth
for now
image:
Dr. William Thomas Green Morton's 1846 ether operation
(daguerrotype by Southworth & Hawes)
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