Tightrope
Tightrope Nola Pastor University Health Services 2022 Musical Composition/Song, 4:17
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Expand Medicaid, Not Warfare
Expand Medicaid, Not Warfare Alex Kalfayan UW Medical Foundation 2022 Multimedia video, 0:54
Six Questions for Christina Thomas-Virnig
Christina Thomas-Virnig (she/her/hers), is Director of DOVS Translational Research in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences (DOVS). Her watercolors, El Yunque-As I Remember It and El Yunque II – As I Remember It, were published in the Inaugural and Fall 2022 issues, respectively. Question 1: What drew you to watercolor and what is your…
Six Questions for A.C. Mapes
A.C. Mapes (she/her/hers) is GME Program Manager in SMPH’s Department of Medicine. Mapes’ essay, Exposed: a germaphobe in quarantine, was published in the Fall 2022 issue. Editor’s note: the terms art and artists are used as umbrella terms in this context and include writing and writers. Question 1: What drew you to writing and what…
Editor’s Note, Spring 2023
Dear Reader, Welcome to the Spring 2023 issue of Corpus Callosum. Just as the season bursts with new growth, this issue, too, blossoms with fresh content and features. Of note, there is now an interview section with two of our published artists/authors, in which they share their perspectives on their craft and practice. We thank…
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Lia Sparks School of Medicine and Public Health 2018 Poem Crutches hold me up Keep me walking like I’m broken Things that go unsaid But never were unspoken Never better to myself Than I was for someone else Patience is a lonely comfort In and of itself Can I reach with sharpened claws If it…
Unheard
Marwa Rawy School of Pharmacy 2022 Poem Screaming loud Sound of pain filling the space Anyone listening? Soul is grieving losing the one it was once Tears are flowing in rivers of pain No one listening Silence again Brain is rewired Threat is near Trauma ain’t heal Screaming loud Sound of pain filling the…
On the Death of the Cook
Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2019 Poem for my mother I arrive, and the refrigerator, full, hums desolately, a low drone, while clustered shallots, snared in their wire basket and past-perfect winesap apples artfully balanced in their ceramic indigo bowl exhale without audience their subtle and…
Memories of South Korea
Ezazul Haque, PhD, MPH, MBGE, MPharm School of Medicine and Public Health 2020 Poem Scorching heat in the beach a pigeon flaps its wings to cool the wind a bit greenish blue sea children’s giggling the sound of wave frighten a lost fish the sun hides behind the mountains the sea starts to swell…
Letters of Absolution
Ryan McAdams, MD School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2022 Poem I Northern Wisconsin in the 1970s. My childhood wardrobe should have been punishment enough—turtlenecks and plaid pants; a frenzy of earth brown, burnt orange, avocado green, and baby blue stripes. The cool weather threads helped hide the bruises. But letters…