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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..."

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares the poem "A Poem in which I Try to Express My Glee at the Music My Friend Has Given Me" by Ross Gay.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in Psychiatric 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.

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