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Jennifer Franklin: As Antigone

I will not walk away.
The moment the nurse
pressed your splotched
body into my arms,
your needs fixed my fate.

April 19, 2023 · 8 Comments

Cynthia Atkins: Hairbrush

He’d fall asleep on my chest, breath light as a falling leaf.
Now, he glides the bristles down my neck— He gently fluffs
the tufts, like airing the pillows.

March 15, 2023 · 14 Comments

Robert Wrigley: Self-Pity

Sometimes, in private—another room at least,
another building all the better—you can bask
in the balm and rage of it, you can as a dog does
roll in it like a dead fish on the grass

March 5, 2023 · 18 Comments

Laura McCullough: Another Winter Sunday (with passive aggression) 

alone inside  
the diminishing body, wanting 
any attention he can get

February 27, 2023 · 8 Comments

Gary Fincke: Anniversary

“Gary, just you wait,” 
My mother promised me ten thousand times, 
And I did until this moment, saying 
That I’ve woken, love, to some happiness

February 16, 2023 · 5 Comments

Travis Lupick: Gabor Maté And The Myth of Normal

Celebrated physician Gabor Maté discusses how our toxic culture is making us ill.

September 21, 2022 · 2 Comments

Doug Anderson: We Get Old, We Get Sick

How we stumble, are glib
in the face of our fear
when we might show
our own raw heart

August 4, 2022 · Leave a comment

Robert Walicki: The Ride

I thought my grandmother was a badass
after arm wrestling me for a pack of Swedish fish.

June 9, 2022 · 3 Comments

Sydney Lea: Heterodox

A knows of B
That after grim chemo his hair came back
The doctors reckoned they’d licked his disease

January 13, 2022 · 2 Comments

Pauletta Hansel: Joy

When we finally sprung my father from the hospital
after days spent staring at the cardio unit’s
cinderblock walls the color of nothing
good, his joy could not be contained.

July 21, 2021 · 4 Comments

Doug Anderson: Illness

there’s nothing
but being lost in the wind

July 14, 2020 · 1 Comment

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