A nurse clicks my arm to the line

in the middle of the
Magicians
first season a group of
college kids
portal through Brooklyn––


Have you considered spiritual healing?

            my eyebrows crunch together

                        Like ayahuasca?


He nods
shrugs over
his shoulder
no one’s listening

Sometimes the disease
is a spiritual problem

that night he leaves
the kids on TV find
Fillory
the magical world
from a
children’s book
and the nurse never returns.

Amy Bobeda holds an MFA from the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics where she founded Wisdom Body Collective. She is an editor of More Revolutionary Letters: A Tribute to Diane di Prima. Her work can be read in Entropy, Vol1 Brooklyn, Denver Quarterly and elsewhere.