Night Sweats, micropoetry written by Mary Bone at Spillwords.com

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Night Sweats

Mary Bone·August 18, 2020

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Night Sweats

written by: Mary Bone

The night sweats
keep returning.
I have fever and coughing.
My immune system is weakened,
with more complications coming my way.
There are many dimensions, so diverse
with my possibly fatal disease.
I hang on to hope-
have faith and pray.

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Mary Bone

Mary Bone enjoys writing and drawing. She has had poetry published in numerous places including Spillwords, Literary Yard, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Poetry Catalog and upcoming at Emerge, Blaze Vox and Zest of the Lemon.

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After a long career tinkering in telecommunications, Jim Bartlett switched to tinkering with writing fiction, both requiring a stretch of the imagination. In the course of putting his fingers to the keyboard, he's been fortunate to have quite a number of his stories featured both in print and online in several wonderful publications, including a story selected for "The Best of Fiction on the Web, 1996 – 2017" anthology. While mentally he strolls along a warm California beach with his wife and golden retriever (shhh, she doesn't know she's a dog), physically they reside on a special little island in the Pacific Northwest.

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