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Solo Piano, Untitled #3 Zachary D. Goldberger, MD School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine 2022 Musical Composition, 4:02
Dear Reader, Welcome to our fourth issue, Spring 2022. As I write this here in Wisconsin, we are in the thick of early spring: snow began the week and summer-like conditions will end it. Which is what spring is: a dance between winter and summer, with days that snow and days that warm, a cautious…
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…
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—…
Ariel Niforatos School of Medicine and Public Health 2021 Short story She walks in endless fields of sorrow in a world she cannot name and through streets that end without destinations. She dances through lonely alleys and backstreets with only the wind pushing her forward and blowing through her hair with an illusion of…
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…