Anne C. Totero UW Hospital, Behavioral Health Department 2020/2024 Poem “You are the first therapist I am coming to.” The Gift. The Dance. The Prose. A beautiful dance. Your life as a piece of art. I prepare the materials so you may paint your own piece. We are greeted with uncertainty. Furrowed fear on…
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Curiosity did NOT Kill the Cat
Gwendolyn Richardson School of Veterinary Medicine 2023 Poem There is a saying I’ve never liked One deserving deletion, it should be striked It states that curiosity often leads to tragedy This, indeed, is far removed from reality I declare, curiosity did not kill the cat It saved it, and known should be that The…
The Waiting
Kurt Swanson, MD School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Not enough organs For those needing transplants I grieve for our Waiting Who waited without a chance Of receiving what they needed Whose time ran out Before the Gift of Life could restore What Failure left them without To…
The Reason We Are Here
Claudia Vilela Casaretto School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem I woke up after a surgery And my mother was crying I clutched the stuffed dalmatian the nurse handed to me The same one I held on the plane ride from Lima Todo estará bien She would tell me Todo estará bien?…
Little Heart Attacks
Erika Enk University Health Services, Medical Services 2018 Poem I don’t mean to make you cry. I mean nothing, but this has not kept you From peeling away my body, layer by layer, The tears clouding your eyes… —Suji Kwock Kim My baby brother hated onions. Sitting next to Mom, five years old, he…
The Dawn-Bringer
August Jirovec School of Medicine and Public Health, Shared Services IT 2017 Poem Before the hill I stand, the sun across my back; a shadow in the sand commands my forward tack, and age-worn motifs lead the hand, the steed, and creed. Embossed with saintly traits, the lure of roguish trades threatens to thwart…
Split by loss
Audra Koscik School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Loss A ghost of me follows; she’s timestamped with a date from before. She’s unreachable, unchangeable. I’ll be whole again, but she’ll always be there in the past. Two different people, split by loss.
Late Spring Snow Storm
Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2019 Poem Because you insist on loving so desperately this always transient beauty— tulip masses breaking into glorious petaled cups, great phalanxes of daffodils waving sunny saffron heads and frilled trumpet throats (as in those famous lines, two hundred years ago),…
Immigrant Staircase
Rebecca Nye, MPH School of Medicine and Public Health 2023 Poem Icy cool in sticky June, the russet ceramic tiles sealed with crumbling caulk welcomed the meeting of a chestnut burnished banister accompanied by brushed-iron balusters knotted like the trunks of maples. Dimpled hands trembled with might up each step, fingers clutching textured cigarette-perfumed…
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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…