When Life Gives You Lemons…
Lemon season for the Bay Area is just around the corner and I usually find myself with an excess of...
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TABULA 2014
“It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is...
Reflections in the Psych Mirror
In my native language Shona, a popular aphorism advises “ seka urema wafa.” Roughly translated, it means “laugh at a...
Nephrostomy (for my aunt)
No OFF-button on the frickin' remote; the tv hangs like an eye which you watch prophilactically, in case it might...
World Backwards
As a young medical student, I sat across from my patient in the old neuro ward. A retired high school...
Winter Lullaby
I adore your gentle breathing, lying in my bed; My plant has chosen you with drops of water on your...
‘Stop Torturing Me’
As is usual practice at the Multi-Service Center, a homeless shelter in the heart of San Francisco, I was sent...
Palmistry
My mother was never superstitious until she lost faith in her body— with each new opaque mass, her doctors uncovered...
Wishful Ending
Let me die in winter Let me die in solitude past midnight with a flask of spirits a cigarette that...
GPSA Election Results
More than 400 students participated in voting for the 2014-15 inaugural elections of the Graduate and Professional Student Association Executive...
Last Night (On Call)
Last night I was called to the front lines where life and death battle it out and no one ever...
Two Untitled Poems
1. I lost you at hello 2. Scars knit intended wounds over time under clothes same as
Had the Wind Not Blown – July 11, 2005
There are these two bugs – a caterpillar and an ant. Despite these differences, the two are best friends. They...
Waiting for the Novacaine
The root still lives but the tooth is shaved off, capped in plastic, awaiting its crown of GOLD, not porcelain...
From the Bedside
One hour into my first ED shift, my attending suggested, “go in there, examine your first patient and tell me...