Poetry

The Hills of Paraguay

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Aug 14, 2018

All summer southwest wind stirs the weeping willows the way my breath disturbs a settled life when I whisper the cancer diagnosis...

Yellow Warbler

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Jun 18, 2018

Soaked in Mexican sunshine he’s powered back to the Berkshires, all the world’s yellow compressed into a firecracker...

The Tarts

Richard M. Berlin, MD

May 15, 2018

I wanted this to be like a fairy tale walk in the woods before kids, careers, blood clots and bone mets...

Birthday Party

Richard M. Berlin, MD

Apr 23, 2018

Green hills patched with April, snow and I’ve chosen to celebrate. with a full slate of patients.

The Juggler

Richard Berlin, MD

Mar 21, 2018

After he juggles three chainsaws and spins twenty plates balanced on sticks, he moves to the grand finale: ten Bowler hats tossed across the arena and stacked on the ringmaster’s head.

Psychiatry Comic: Anger Management Clinic

Jonny Hawkins

Mar 5, 2018

When's your teed off time?

We wrote through the night, between moonlight and morning, admissions and discharges, wrote when phones stopped ringing, when pagers stopped paging. We were raw, opening ourselves to chaos and mystery...