Kaleidoscopic luminosity, urban serenity, and vivid imagery –– these are the essential qualities exuded by this meta-illustrative, and regenerative, portrayal...

The patient is rushed into the EDNurses crowd aroundRaise a legRaise an armMore doctors surroundAsk questionsPatient tries to speak,Becomes more...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 31, 2006.] Every year in January or February, when the last page of the...

January 13, 2021 One of these days I'll turn the right way when I exit the stairwell. I'll confidently walk...

[Originally published on January 26, 2012.] An innovative, student-directed solution to the UC budget crisis was proposed last Wednesday at...

How are you?I Inhale.And I’m quickly reminded that this was first real breath I’ve taken all dayHow long have I...

fleetingly she glimpsed by ---a backyard hummingbird fluttering,feeding her hatchlings: spiny, naked little things,blind and squirmy,perilously craning, that grew feathers...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 14, 2010.] California has another budget crisis. This should be no surprise to anyone...

It is morning; it is spring. And in the dew, the mountains woo. Distantly heard, the roosters crow; and past...

There are moments where you will findNo pastOr presentOr future.Only eternity;An instant that stretches on, and onAnd you will recognize...

[Third place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category.] One afternoon, while I was taking a walk in the...

I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2, 1993.] David E. Smith, MD, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...

There are days in August when you can hear the grass reaching for the sun. Long days where the air...