SPOTLIGHT -
July 26th 2024
"My own dear love, he is all my world,—And I wish I’d never met him."
July 25th 2024
Explore a poem about death, grief, and the healing powers of the humanities.
July 19th 2024
"I was talking on the phone, walking steadier, noticed the tap, and after, the tap-step, a light knock, a knock like someone’s at the door come to visit..."
July 12th 2024
"...the beauty still intoxicating, the spirit of the research like a child swimming for the first time in the sea, awed..."
July 11th 2024
"By now I’ve lost track of time with this boy who reminds me of myself when I imagined becoming a doctor..."
How to Triumph Like a Girl
"As if this big dangerous animal is also a part of me, that somewhere inside the delicate skin of my body, there pumps an 8-pound female horse heart, giant with power, heavy with blood."
"PTSD"
"Eyes locked on the flat-lined monitor, she hears the last drop gurgle, the team quiet and calm in a lake of blood."
Undeniable
A psychiatrist has an undeniable response to the Jacksonville shooting.
A Small Needful Fact
"...he put gently into the earth some plants which, most likely, some of them, in all likelihood, continue to grow..."
The Poetic Body
The body keeps the score...
Poetic Reflections Yield Lessons Learned
"Be bold, choose joy, and live authentically."
Creativity Outlets: The Clinician’s Battery for Recharging
The ambiguity of psychiatry naturally lends itself to a story, and creativity is all about telling a story.
Mother, Summer, I
"Too often summer days appear, Emblems of perfect happiness, I can't confront..."
Poetry and Me
This Special Report invites readers to journey with individuals who use their artistic side to reflect on their experiences as healers and the healed.
What I Love
"...and remember the white and bloodless world I knew before I fell in love."
I Remember
"By the first of August, the invisible beetles began to snore and the grass was as tough as hemp and was no color..."
"What I Love"
"...everything known and unknown for longer than I have searched or breathed, the infinity of my ignorance."
Patty’s Charcoal Drive-In
"The dark pours down, sticky as Coke, but the light from the kitchen gleams like a beacon."
Girdle
"So many things look absurd from a distance that people still take seriously..."
What a Dying Woman Saw
T.S.A.
"At O'Hare, at Atlanta, at Dallas/Fort Worth, it happens every trip, at LaGuardia, Logan, and Washington Dulles, the customary strip..."
“What a Dying Woman Saw”
"She was clear-eyed and dying when I knew her, soft breaths feathering from her chest like distant smoke..."
Ode to the 4th
A psychiatrist reflects on the Fourth of July in light of current events....
Psychiatric Reflections on the Court's Decisions
A psychiatrist shares further reflections on the most recent Court decisions...
Unbecoming
A psychiatrist finds the recent Supreme Court decision unbecoming...
My Heart Leaps Up
"The Child is father of the Man..."
Mourning
A psychiatrist mourns as he reflects on the Supreme Court decision....
Border Boy
"It is not a place out there but a place in here. I catch on its barbed wire in both places."
Tragedy Times Two
A psychiatrist reflects on the 2 recent tragedies at sea...
Our Medical Marriage
"I sit with my half-filled glass and a life we knew we were choosing..."
A Happy Juneteenth
A psychiatrist poetically reflects on Juneteenth...
Letter to AI
"But you who know all will never comprehend our resentment of perfection, the flawlessness you take for granted..."
On the Hospital Bed
"...this memory held on chest, in hand..."
Warning
A psychiatrist shares his thoughts and reflections after an inaugural poem receives a "warning"...
"Our Medical Marriage"
"Scores of textbooks later we’re a pair of pagers and missed dinners, companions in sleep-deprived nights."