walking the dogs during a noon tornado
siren — tricky to triangulate,
one horn fixed, the other rotating —
you cannot exactly locate the sound
and you cannot escape
cytotoxic antimitotic alkylating
semisynthetic, precursor extracted from European yew needles, Taxus baccata
nausea, diarrhea, appetite loss, stomatitis, bone marrow suppression/blood dyscrasia (neutropenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia), depilitation, fatigue, cutaneous reaction, arthralgia, myalgia, amenorrhea, infection, hemorrhagic cystitis, fluid retention, pneumonitis, nail discoloration, peripheral neuropathy, hepatitis, anaphylactic reaction, cardiotoxicity, infusion site reaction
Footnotes
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Sara Ann Greenslit is the author of The Blue of Her Body (Starcherone Books, 2007).
Her second book, As if a Bird Flew By Me (FC2), will appear in 2011.