My Own Recharging Station: Unplugging from All of My Life Roles
Epic inbox, emails, pages, requests…
To My Daughter
When you say you want to be a physician like me…
Constant
After this year+ of…
Cockroach Rodeo
Flashbacks of a fourth-grade insect lesson…
Who’s Counting?
COVID. 2020.
Perfect Storm
Hemoptysis. Pregnant. A mystery.
Hitting Pause
Suddenly, there’s a virus that stops everything, an earthquake, and a toddler saying, “I have no breath OR steam.“
First Patient
She is looking out the window…
Miraculous
A miracle?
Grief Palliation at the Microscope
All your life…
Makeup
A three-year-old tried to make her mother look beautiful…
This Room
The last time I was in this room, a patient took her last breath.
Lost Hugs
These are days of hugs not given or
The Heart is Beating On
It pumps until it pumps no more,
Overload
My daughter twirls in her pink confetti
How Lucky Am I?
What ordinary miracles I witness each
The Things Between Us
He unbuttons his shirt.
The Weight
The weight of my words and your
Pages
Beep beep bee–. Slap. Groan. Fumble.
Vision
When I close my eyes, your frozen full-
History, I Guess.
Name, department, function
Sweet Magic
One little boy, AFOs ill-fitting, wild child,
American Red Cross
Hearts on the wall for Valentine’s Day.
Fever
She can’t stay seated, fake lashes
A Pathologists Sonnet
Static