Rowan Lyster
I am having a flare-up of brain fog. In the heat,
the nurse said many patients report feeling
a weighted blanket on their limbs.
There is no timeline for recovery.
Everything is always the hardest thing.
I am having a bit of trouble with my breathing.
A flare up of weighted blankets and elephants
standing on my head. The nurse said
sometimes your brain is cornflour mixed with water.
It is important to live inside the fatigue diary.
Actions causing fatigue, like completing a diary
or self-blame, should be listed in the fatigue diary.
The air is exhausted, a weighted blanket.
Sometimes it is cornflour mixed with elephants.
There is nothing new to offer here.
The sofa and I resent each other.
I have been referred to an app for patients
and sucked all the sugar off the ibuprofen.
Rowan Lyster is a poet and physiotherapy student from Herefordshire, based in Bristol. Her poems have appeared in publications including Anthropocene, bath magg, Magma, PERVERSE, Poetry Wales, The Interpreter’s House, The London Magazine, The Rialto and Under the Radar.
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