
- Psychiatric Times Vol 27 No 6
- Volume 27
- Issue 6
The Garden of Eden Poem
Today when the ground was no longer...
Today when the ground was no longer
too wet to work and the world was all lilac
perfume, I pulled my scuffle hoe hard
through the clay’s crust and heard
the blade scrape metal and earth.
I believed the sound came from nothing
more than a buried beer can tab
I dropped while foraging through
lettuce and sugar peas last spring.
But what surfaced from the fresh manure
was my lost wedding band, buried for years
in earth that nurtures Love-Lies-Bleeding,
a ring from a thirty-year marriage, rescued
from the filth of paradise, hosed off, shining,
my cracked fingernails caked with dirt.
Articles in this issue
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Ethics, Psychiatry, and End-of-Life Issuesover 15 years ago
Psychiatry in the Era of Neuroethicsover 15 years ago
Ethics and Child and Adolescent Psychiatryover 15 years ago
DEA e-Prescribing Rules Present Challengesover 15 years ago
Dramatology: A New Paradigm for Psychiatry and Psychotherapyover 15 years ago
The Interface Between Cancer and Psychiatryover 15 years ago
Risk of Recurrent Breast Cancer With SSRI/Tamoxifen Interactionover 15 years ago
Elegant Knockdowns, DISC1, and Schizophreniaover 15 years ago
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