Dementia
The sickly sweet aroma of the elderly wafts upwards as I walk through the hallways. She sits on her bed, catatonic.
Witness
Today is the worst day of her life. As for me, it's Tuesday. I try to hold space for her...
vanilla ice cream
“what do you think?” your wide eyes an azure blue glazed with the reflection of my surprise and, the essence...
Discovery
There are lilies in the valley lofty clouds up in the sky there are spots of brown on butterflies now...
Bird Banding
On the phone she’ll tell me stories about shorebirds which breed in warmer marshland winters and still cross the continent...
Ours Is Not to Reason Why
When I found out the next patient I’ll be following is a retired army cardiothoracic surgeon in his late eighties...
Meander
Been drifting along A sea of green. Been free to be, to breathe, to dream
Assiduously
This morning, strolling soddenly down Harmon street, the rain became a sudden shield; with sudden clarity I felt calamity dismissed...
Big Surprise
It was sunrise Nail clipping of a moon, an incisor tooth Peeking and covered again, the colors of the sky...
Introspection
Often, I used to drop by to ask a patient of mine about his mood, and one day he just...