The Heart and Lung Waiting Room
Abstract
at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky As morning strains to pump daylight through the tinted windows of the waiting room, a family's prayers embrace the air. Elevator doors slice through conversations surrounding the nervous tic of a clock. People clutching pillows wrestle with sleep, their dreams splintered by wooden chair arms. Meanwhile, a voice repeatedly sounds a doctor's name over the intercom. The receptionist knits her brows, caught up in the muffled yarn of a TV talk show...