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..."
The Morning After the Most Recent Shooting I Saw
"I am not comforted by the morning after the night."
Remembering a Musical Legend
A psychiatrist reflects on the passing of a music legend.
Hospital Food
"We lower a plastic tray on his ribs as if food can stop the dying..."
Dismantling Structures Through Creativity
How can creativity help dismantle racist structures?
Deviation
A psychiatrist reflects on the deviations in today's world...
"Spring"
"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring..."
Unrestrained
A psychiatrist reflects on the death of Jordan Neely, only a couple of weeks after his murder...
Influential Figures
In honor of Mother's Day...
Geography of the Forehead
"Everyone thinks the brain is so complicated, but let’s look at the facts."
"Hospital Food"
Seasoned Pistachio
Our Nation’s Zoo
"life, liberty, and happiness pursue survival hanging in the distance..."
The Bass
"I had no expectation though of actually catching a fish when somehow we did."
One Dimensional
"And I believe that the current state of America is seeing rivers of red minus the white and blue..."
Trivial Times
A psychiatrist reflects on trivial times...
Overalls
"Migrants pay for safety. We pay people to believe that what we tell them is true, especially when we have spared them the hardest facts to hold."
Good Bones
"Life is short, though I keep this from my children."
Letting Go
When faced with struggles, stress, and burnout, sometimes the best medicine is simply letting go...
Tools
"...my father’s spade saving last year’s mud, a long-tined rake, the swan-neck hoe..."
"Tools"
"Each spring, when earth warms and begs me to open its dark skin, I carry them past flowering apples and pears to the quiet square of garden..."
Status Quo
A psychiatrist reflects on the status quo in light of the most recent tragedy....
Your Card Is the King of Rats
Is your card the king of rats? Is your card the queen of roaches?
Haven
As we cope with another tragedy, a psychiatrist reflects on the importance of a safe haven...
A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me
"I hold a thousand kites in a field loosed from their tethers at once..."
Preface to Leaves of Grass
"This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals..."
Anatomy Lab
"By year’s end, brittle with guilt, we hovered over our hollow creation..."
Invictus
"Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed."
What a Psychiatrist Remembers...
"I remember perfumes and anxious sweat, who preferred the big leather chair and who liked to hide in the sofa’s corner."
A Quiet Life
"This isn’t as easy as it seems..."
Autobiography in Five Short Chapters
"There is a deep hole in the sidewalk. I fall in. I am lost... I am helpless."
