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    Between Shifts
    Between Shifts
    Between Shifts
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    Between Shifts

    By Sally Gallot-Reeves

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    Between Shifts is a collection of vignettes in poetry depicting a camera’s eye view into the worlds of conflict and compassion, relationships and love, life and death, growth and understanding…
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateJan 3, 2014
    ISBN9781491835166
    Between Shifts
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    Sally Gallot-Reeves

    Sally Gallot-Reeves is a spiritual gardener planting seeds. She is the author of the Soul Garden Pathway website and their daily blessings sent out to the world. Her first publication, Between Shifts, is a collection of vignettes in poetry drawing inspiration from her years of nursing service to patients, families and clinicians. She was awarded the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award for her achievements and contributions in healthcare as a leader and mentor and continues to work with non-profit organizations to assist them in achieving their goals. Born in New England, she resides in New Hampshire where she continues her literary work and creates sanctuary space for all living things. You may visit her website and contact her through www.soulgarden pathway.com

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      Book preview

      Between Shifts - Sally Gallot-Reeves

      2014 Sally Gallot-Reeves. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 12/18/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-3517-3 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4918-3516-6 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013920747

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Contents

      [Hunger]

      cat sleeping

      SIDS

      my father’s garden

      tornadoes

      parson’s beach

      adolescent suicide

      The Mrs.

      ashes

      christmas eve

      healing

      looking up I thought

      between life and death

      mirrors

      past lives

      assault

      rainy days

      code blue

      fog banks

      embrace and release

      shingles

      donation: gifts of life

      undertow

      december mourning

      one moment

      inner child

      estranged

      cancer

      18

      next life

      dormancy

      change

      self abandonment

      storm picnic

      the waterfall

      preserves

      Elizabeth’s adoption

      post-operative recovery room

      the road to ferry beach

      january comforter

      rising above adversity

      wedding snapshot

      living with wings

      winter symphony

      [Hunger]

      Hunger gnaws at my bones, chewing and ripping

      protected layers of insecurity.

      It knows at some point in starvation

      the pangs of wanting stop. Prostrate to survival

      I will forget what I really want.

      What I really need to be whole again.

      Committed, no turning back,

      the steadfast cravings of my mind

      a daily sustenance.

      Past the point of resolute enlightenment

      survival of the soul.

      I must lay down all my

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