3. Arrival of a 75 per center to the Burns Unit – Heather Cam

[1955–current, born Canada, migrated to Australia in 1977]

They wheeled him in

just before the dinner trolley
wrapped like Lazarus,
but howling
howling so you’d know he was alive.

Source: Cam, H 1990, ‘The Moon’s Hook’, Poetry Australia 125, South Head Press, Sydney.