This is driving me NUTS! I’m about to jump out the window with frusteration. I read this poem once, tacked up in a college bathroom, and I can’t think of enough specific phrases to effectively google it.
It sounds more modern than not, and I seem to remember a bit of rhyme. The jist is that a woman is in a hospital, but that’s not clear until you read through the whole thing and think about it. She talks about being tied to her twin or shadow by a cord, which (afai can remember) meant her IV. There are a few lines about her being a bird and wanting to fly away. I think it’s two verses total.
I know if you haven’t read it, or don’t know it, this is almost impossible, but I’m really hoping someone knows it! Or maybe a good archive online where I can browse through and try to find it. Otherwise, well, I’m young. I should run into it sometime during the next 40 years of my life 