Sandra Ridley - Orchard Park

Text Box: ORCHARD PARK they medicated her the day she arrived wasn’t prescribed these new drugs but took them wasn’t able to decline, they told her she needed them, but the pills only made her wheel her chair in an awkward way back to the wrong room i should have yelled more than i did at those who wouldn’t help her, said she was difficult needed morphine and palliative care didn’t know her name or that she played cribbage drank irish cream, held her grandchild’s hand

A participant of the Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Program (2005), Sandra Ridley’s recent work can be found in the Huntsville Festival of Arts’ anthology, Fringe Festival Poetry, and at www.ottawater.com. She has also been short-listed for Lichen’s ‘Tracking A Serial Poet’ competition. Always a wheat-farm girl, this writer currently lives in Ottawa.

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