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…
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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…
Yes is an Apple
Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2021 Poem The nurse told me, yesterday my mother talked about my father as though he were here, maybe “upstairs” somewhere. She knew it. Though he is gone a year. The nurse told me, this morning my mother lost track of…
Recovery
Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Medicine 2021 Poem I hear that things are better So I think Time to pick up the pieces But the puzzle is moth-eaten And in the end, undone
Indigo Sky
Elizabeth Petty School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2022 Poem the crescent moon a faint lopsided smile in the indigo sky glows with a subtle warmth a warmth that reaches.. reaches deep within touching a heart miles away far apart the moon brings love back back again for a fleeting moment…
Flounder
Daniel Funk School of Pharmacy 2022 Poem Construct a bridge to Pulley Ridge Designed one hundred miles long. For paradise, it’s worth the price; The fish abound in patient throngs. Groom me a beach on Big Pine Key And terraform its foreign shore With golden sand from distant lands— Home’s plastic luxuries galore! Release…
Cameron Haight
Kristy Wendt School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Surgery-Otolaryngology 2022 Poem For two and a half centuries the prognosis for esophageal atresia was death by aspiration until a cold day in the last week of winter, when a listless infant, twelve days old, mouth bleeding, was referred to Cameron Haight, There wasn’t…
Witnesses
Nasser Lubega, MS III School of Medicine and Public Health 2021 Poem (Epigraph: Over the summer, a violent act was performed on a person I love, and I never got to say goodbye. One was a father, and the other his son.) When the evening drew near, I pulled you in with a choreographed…
Time
Daniel McNeela School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics 2014 Poem Existence is meant to burn in structured candescence, the lighting of a candle, hot melting of wax. This extolled by man who thought, in all his vainglory, to make structured time by casting it in the accruable tick—…
An Ode to Francis Collins
Chris Unterberger School of Pharmacy 2021 Poem Longtime NIH director, Francis Collins, announced his resignation of the post last week. For the past twelve years, Dr. Collins has served as the head of the most important health institution in the nation while guiding the country’s scientific research under three presidents. Before becoming director of…