A Little Closer to the Edge

Name: A Little Closer to the Edge
Uploaded: 2022-07-08T14:00:02.616Z
Description: "O mother, O minutehand, teach me how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season."

July 8, 2022

Richard M. Berlin, MD

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"O mother, O minutehand, teach me how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season."

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "A Little Closer to the Edge" by Ocean Vuong.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 24 years inPsychiatric Times™ in a column called “Poetry of the Times.” He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.