Share this postSherman AlexieLife FlightCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMoreLife FlightPoemSherman AlexieSep 16, 2023163Share this postSherman AlexieLife FlightCopy linkFacebookEmailNotesMore7910ShareArticle voiceover1×0:00-1:32Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade.Photo by Marcelo Leal on UnsplashText within this block will maintain its original spacing when published The rescue helicopter percussions its way to the hospital ER and wakes me at five a.m. I welcome this interruption because, right now, in this pre-dawn city, strangers are saving another stranger’s life.
Thanks be to all the people who look danger, illness, and injury head on, and help us rest easy, even when we are wakeful.
Beautiful. A different point of view