THE LAST DOOR
Doctors distant as the city
does not mean illness will not visit
or ignore any door left open
by a lifetime taken for granted.
Medicine is stopgap,
unable to remedy old habits
paused for doctor visits,
resumed until the next appointment.
The future waits,
until it runs its course,
takes its final toll
once the last door is closed.
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Ken Gierke is retired and lives in Missouri. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee, and his poetry has been published in such places as MasticadoresUSA, Chewers/Masticadores, Hotel/Masticadores, LatinosUSA, Ekphrastic Review, Amethyst Review, and Silver Birch Press, as well as in several print anthologies. His poetry collections, Glass Awash in 2022, Heron Spirit in 2024, and Random Riffs in 2025, are published by Spartan Press. He also blogs at rivrvlogr.com.
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And we would like to thank Ken so much for his continued support and collaboration with the online magazine LatinosUSA (English Edition) where he is always welcome.
AND
If you are a poet and would like to have your poems published in LatinosUSA (English Edition), contact me, Francisco Bravo Cabrera poetry editor at: ArribaPamplona@gmail.com
CHEERS
LatinosUSA 
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