The Bleeding Man

Mary McGrath
1 min readAug 26, 2020

What can he do?

Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash

His body is leaking,
The blood ebbing like the tide,
Sometimes gathering
Into places unknown.

Receding between the veins
Like a lost traveler
It ducks between
The branches of the bones,

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Mary McGrath

Top writer in humor, short stories, writing, advice and poetry. She’s written for Newsweek, Wall St. Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Chicken Soup for the Soul.