I Love a Man Who Gave Blood Thirty Times

     And everywhere I go I think Do you have a pint of him, honey?
     Does the sweet health and consideration running through him
run through you, too?
     Do you find yourself more apt to fight for justice, sir,
or leer like a satyr?
     Is your wife surprised"
     Doesn't she like it?
     And is his vigor here among us, as we sit waiting?

Tina Kelley is a freelance writer whose poems have appered in Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, Fine Madness and Journal of the American Medical Association. She is an avid knitter and blood donor.