Wounds

Richard Berlin

By
| November 1, 2002

Dr. Berlin is in private practice in Lenox, Mass., and is associate professor of psychiatry at University of Massachusetts Medical School.

Each wound contains
its own beauty--

blunt trauma indigo
walled below pale blue eyes,

the gashed leg
filigreed with blood,

an abdomen scored
by a surgeon's blade,

each layer yielding
with its own sigh,

the biopsy site healed
in a straight red line.

Each wound speaks
its own language,

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