This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Year of the Snake
[Originally published in on February 7, 2013.] Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last year’s Dragon yang. That said, Snake does not settle for mediocrity, either.
The hammer (an epilogue to the impostor)
Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...
gutenburg discontinuity
the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.
Speaking in Tongues
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...
The Third Wheel
Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen
Once I Climbed a Hill
Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...
Terrible Things
I never knew you before the coma, Before bacteria seeded your brain.
Saffron, Saint of Spices: UCSF Library Artist in Residence Pantea Karimi
The UCSF Library Artist in Residence program promotes health humanities by exposing and re-purposing historical materials preserved in the Archives...
effigy
rounds of hate in scores fired enter my body as i watch eight fall, six of them who look like...
Head, Shoulders, Knees, Toes
Two distant planets A chimney of cozy air An open coin purse Oxen at the yoke A perch for cuddly...