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Use latex gloves. Use a scalpel. Brain slices up like Jell-O. Use tweezers to grab the hair-like strand of cranial nerve VII on the ventral brain stem. Nerve VII controls facial expression, such as your furrowed brow yesterday when the honey-haired boy ended with “but I really enjoy spending time with you.” Use ventilated rooms …
From the Editorial Team Dear Reader, We are very pleased to welcome you to this year’s edition of Rubor: Reflections onMedicine from the Wasatch Front. It is our happy task to review submissions reflecting on medicine from authors and artists across not only our Salt Lake community but the country. These submissions make us think, …
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I know what you’re thinking, but not that one
I wish in these hours of tendon, bone, salt
His hands move through the air, reaching. Out and then back again. The wrinkled fingers nearly touch, tremble, and move apart. It is a motion that could be mistaken for some kind of prayer, the wafting of incense nearer, to wreath his head. In the background are the shouts of college students at the bar, …
After Kevin Young Praise to animals doodled on intake forms Praise to the rattle of pretzels in Tupperware Praise to stools that spin And to the children that spin them And to walls for launching from Praise to headbands with red bows Civilizing the snarl of unbrushed hair Praise to green trucks that wind up …
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