All posts in Spring 2025 Issue

Laker Thrasher UW Hospital 2024 Poem   On what I can only assume was a beautiful day Enrico Fermi proposed a problem that everyone understood a cosmic ouroboros head to tail, beginning to end the eternal return to the infernal question: Are we alone in the universe? And we’ll spend the rest of our lives…

Farah Kaiksow, MD, MPP School of Medicine and Public Health 2024-5 Poem   They said to wait a year. That you would make your way back to us. That you were strong (which we already knew). That miracles happen (it’s true). That the brain and body were magic. That we could learn to wait. So…

A.C. Mapes School of Medicine and Public Health 2025 Poem   Days after the deep freeze, we watched a snowdrop try to bloom.   Its petals were sheer and brittle, its flower open, but barely. Wind-beaten, tired, guarded—   I knew the feeling.   The cold pinched color back into my cheeks, but our arms…

Sharon M. Van Sluijs School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Pediatrics 2020 Poem   My father can hear it faintly from the woods at the edge of the facility that now holds him, the barred owls’ cries. Late beneath January’s glassy black sky, two, a pair, toss out, again, again, their eerie barking…