OB - Gyn Waiting Room

OB - Gyn

A place 

of sisters

Only girls

Ladies only

Except for

 the

expectant partner

or glowing new dad 

or the babe swaddled in blue.

The sisters sit in silence

Magazines lay unread

except for 

matronly 

hands.

Digital readers

Smart phone aglow

in the hands of youth.

The matrons

smile as

a sister round

with child

struggles from 

the chair.

We sit in

silence

but

we sisters 

link hands

from the pink

swaddled babe

to the eldest

and silent

angels 

of the 

past.

Stuff that rolled 

around in my head

while sitting

in the OB-Gyn

Waiting Room.

Janice Adcock

1/31/2013