Holly Cohn, MFA School of Medicine and Public Health, Department of Ophthalmology Fundus Photograph Reading Center 2010-2020 Poem I remember getting into the car with my younger self the tension in the space was high all precarious with fear I hadn’t traveled far on the outside but I had covered a lot of territory…
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For Our Beloved Elders with Memory Loss
Fabu Carter, PhD School of Medicine and Public Health, Wisconsin Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center 2015 Poem Some call you seniors I call you wise elders Living long and learning much. You should be honored Your grey hair a symbol of victory and authority in life. When your memory hides or flees And every face…
This Virus is Deadly
Jenn Johnson, BS, BSN, RN UW Hospital and Clinics, Neuroscience Intensive Care Unit 2020 Poem It’s not safe to leave your home. To go to the park, jogging, parties, church, the grocery store, or school. This virus is deadly. Daily news of innocent lives lost. Photos, videos, and memorials flood our screens. Tears…
Sell Me a Scar
Jessica Parrott School of Medicine and Public Health 2019 Poem Sell me a scar, love. No, not a line of puckered flesh, White from age, A memory of physical pain, Gone but not forgotten. Sell me a scar from your heart. A memory that weighs heavy on you. A wound that still hurts.…
Pi (A Circle Bisected)
Pi (A Circle Bisected) Cody J Wenthur, PharmD, PhD School of Pharmacy 2020 Poem
Pandemic Panic
Jennifer Bird School of Medicine and Public Health 2020 Poem I feel this world start falling Watch the people go insane Pray to gods I don’t believe in Ask if they still know my name. I see the stats are climbing Watch from windows, watch from screens, Wonder if my expertise is useful Or…
Art Studio
Emma Liverseed School of Medicine and Public Health 2020 Poem After a long night (or morning?) of studying, you imagine wedging a bookmark into your gray matter— a bookmark, because who would want a dog-eared brain? You can never remember where you leave off. The brain does not catalogue like a filing cabinet, but…