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.
All posts in Spring 2023 Issue
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…