Laker Thrasher UW Hospital 2024 Poem On what I can only assume was a beautiful day Enrico Fermi proposed a problem that everyone understood a cosmic ouroboros head to tail, beginning to end the eternal return to the infernal question: Are we alone in the universe? And we’ll spend the rest of our lives…
Vibhusha Kolli, BS School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Prose “Brring brring … brring brring … brring brring …” Silence. The phone pauses for a moment, only to restart its incessant candor. In the heavy Midwest winter, the department’s mainline barely caught a breath, particularly restless from the bitterness of COVID. As just…
Farah Kaiksow, MD, MPP School of Medicine and Public Health 2024-5 Poem They said to wait a year. That you would make your way back to us. That you were strong (which we already knew). That miracles happen (it’s true). That the brain and body were magic. That we could learn to wait. So…
A.C. Mapes School of Medicine and Public Health 2025 Poem Days after the deep freeze, we watched a snowdrop try to bloom. Its petals were sheer and brittle, its flower open, but barely. Wind-beaten, tired, guarded— I knew the feeling. The cold pinched color back into my cheeks, but our arms…
Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2020 Poem My father can hear it faintly from the woods at the edge of the facility that now holds him, the barred owls’ cries. Late beneath January’s glassy black sky, two, a pair, toss out, again, again, their eerie barking…
Molly Hayman UW Hospital 2025 Short story His laughter rang in her ears. She’d heard that laugh so many times throughout their years together and always thought of it as his special laugh. His real laugh. The sound he made when he thought something was actually funny. This time though, she was fairly certain…
Iris Kamenev, MD UW Hospital 2023 Short story “You cannot take the spirituality out of medicine,” Bright, our driver and a local pastor, tells me in his pleasantly thick accent as the car jolts over the unpaved road on the way to the hospital. The Christian radio station is playing a song with only…
Artist statement: Captured during a hike in the Sierra Nevadas of Southern Spain, cats & kittens were everywhere.
Artist statement: This piece draws attention to the impact that viruses have on healthcare, science, and society.
