Between Shifts

By Sally Gallot-Reeves

Between Shifts is a collection of vignettes in poetry depicting a camera’s eye view into the worlds of conflict and compassion, relationships and love, life and death, growth and understanding…

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jan 3, 2014
• ISBN: 9781491835166

Sally Gallot-Reeves

Sally Gallot-Reeves is a spiritual gardener planting seeds. She is the author of the Soul Garden Pathway website and their daily blessings sent out to the world. Her first publication, Between Shifts, is a collection of vignettes in poetry drawing inspiration from her years of nursing service to patients, families and clinicians. She was awarded the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for her achievements and contributions in healthcare as a leader and mentor and continues to work with non-profit organizations to assist them in achieving their goals. Born in New England, she resides in New Hampshire where she continues her literary work and creates sanctuary space for all living things. You may visit her website and contact her through www.soulgarden pathway.com

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Published by AuthorHouse 12/18/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3517-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4918-3516-6 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2013920747

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Contents

[Hunger]

cat sleeping

SIDS

my father’s garden

tornadoes

parson’s beach

adolescent suicide

The Mrs.

ashes

christmas eve

healing

looking up I thought

between life and death

mirrors

past lives

assault

rainy days

code blue

fog banks

embrace and release

shingles

donation: gifts of life

undertow

december mourning

one moment

inner child

estranged

cancer

18

next life

dormancy

change

self abandonment

storm picnic

the waterfall

preserves

Elizabeth’s adoption

post-operative recovery room

the road to ferry beach

january comforter

rising above adversity

wedding snapshot

living with wings

winter symphony

[Hunger]

Hunger gnaws at my bones, chewing and ripping

protected layers of insecurity.

It knows at some point in starvation

the pangs of wanting stop. Prostrate to survival

I will forget what I really want.

What I really need to be whole again.

Committed, no turning back,

the steadfast cravings of my mind

a daily sustenance.

Past the point of resolute enlightenment

survival of the soul.

I must lay down all my