SPOTLIGHT -
February 5th 2025
Explore the theme of mortality and the fleeting nature of time in a poem inspired by Stoic philosophy and personal reflection.
January 31st 2025
"No matter, Hattie: It’s a long, beautiful walk into that flower-smothered standing ovation, so go on and make them wait."
January 24th 2025
"What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?"
January 17th 2025
"In my poem, says another, I can forget I am forgotten. Now I understand being misunderstood..."
January 16th 2025
"I begin by remembering my hours as a patient..."
Evening Hawk
"His wing Scythes down another day, his motion Is that of the honed steel-edge, we hear The crashless fall of stalks of Time."
Sleight of Hand
"Oh for a stronger magic, that I could wave my arms and reach deep inside my white coat pocket..."
Kansas, 4AM
"The sounds of the world at this late hour sadden you, but then enters the rain, hastening down, the rain that wants to touch everything and almost does."
I Sit and Sew
"My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams..."
Blue Fortitude
A psychiatrist reflects on blue fortitude as he visits the Columbine Memorial.
"Sleight of Hand"
"Oh for a stronger magic, that I could wave my arms and reach deep inside my white coat pocket, the mass vanished..."
We Lived Happily During the War
"And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough..."
Used Book
"What luck—an open bookstore up ahead..."
PTSD
"For months she has dreamed in red..."
The “Change” in Climate Change
"Tornado or torbellino or something else, I ask her about the valley’s strange wind. And she laughs, says that she was calling to ask me the same thing."
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...