Switchboard Shift

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Kathleen Fagley's Switchboard Shift grapples with urgent demands of time in health crises. Headsets and lines render her "a reader of voices" speaking "another language/driven by machines." The job requires efficiency, calm, and separation from primary human emotions. The speaker says, "the mother is in shock/and I am losing my voice." The operator questions her visual and aural abilities, wants nothing more than to fly above rivers, upturned trees. But the wolverine stalks hospital hallways. -Susan Roney-O'Brien, author of Bone Circle and Thira ¿¿Equivocal, the voices in Switchboard Shift: Kathleen Fagley has braided a tenuous tapestry of hospital codes, calls, and responses between "an operator tethered to her station" and anxious speakers on the line. Hoping to "convey seriousness without panic, " she is "pressed into [her]seat by the weight of emergencies." When "a small voice answers back...distant as the earth from the moon, " she has learned that "it is not a choice that [she] listen." So should you. -Christina Lovin, author of Echo: Poems and A Stirring in the Dark