
- Psychiatric Times Vol 35, Issue 8
- Volume 35
- Issue 8
The Hills of Paraguay
All summer southwest wind stirs the weeping willows the way my breath disturbs a settled life when I whisper the cancer diagnosis...
All summer southwest wind
stirs the weeping willows
the way my breath disturbs
a settled life when I whisper
the cancer diagnosis.
But this afternoon our clinic
feels far from my garden,
more distant than traffic
pounding the Pulaski Skyway
built long ago without shoulders
where police might hide
to ambush speeders
who roam undetected
like occult cancers.
At random moments,
my mind returns to work,
to tumors growing fast
and invasive as tipuana
trees on the hills of Paraguay,
where farmers slash limbs
with sharpened machetes
to spill blood red resin.
And deep in southern summer
los viejos proclaim,
“The heart is a leaf,
and the wind makes it throb,”
though I would say the heart
of a doctor’s life is the wind
in willows that makes him weep.
Articles in this issue
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Treating Recalcitrant PTSD With ECT: Are We There Yet?about 7 years ago
PTSD in Late Lifeabout 7 years ago
Introduction: PTSD Treatment Strategies and New Initiativesabout 7 years ago
Accelerated Resolution Therapy for PTSDabout 7 years ago
Complementary and Integrative Health Approaches for PTSDabout 7 years ago
Treatment of Bipolar Depression in Children and Adolescentsabout 7 years ago
The Role of ECT in the Suicide Epidemicabout 7 years ago
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