We Lived Happily During the War

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Ilya Kaminsky's poem, "We Lived Happily During the War," a parable of poetry.

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.