Contains several poems with the theme of breathing and illness including one dealing with a girl with a serious illness and a tracheotomy. It begins "The girl who breathes through the hole in her neck fills the library with mortality. She makes us turn, keeps us from our reading; She is the only one who concentrates. Her deep breaths make us listen to our hearts, Our breathing shallow as she approaches like the stalking skeleton with the scythe... -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.