Bio
Ruth's poems have appeared in various journals, ezines, and anthologies in NZ, Australia, the UK and US. In her spare time she edits Poems in the Waiting Room (NZ), a project supplying free poetry cards to rest home residents, hospices, prison inmates, and patients waiting for medical appointments. See waitingroompoems.wordpress.com
Ruth Arnison
Blind touch
for JW
I stand still while fingers
map my forehead.
Tracing your face is like
reading a book, she laughs,
your eyebrows, they're
permanently raised.