Browsing Category In Sickness and In Health
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To My Daughter, In the Present
of Holocaust and poverty, whole wheat scones” Image: “Fairy Tale Illustration by Adrienne Segur” by Karen, licensed under CC 2.0. Dawn Tefft: I wrote a poem/letter to ...
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Mourning in the Time of COVID-19
Tuesday, April 21st: “Mom’s in the ER. Dr. recommends hospice,” reads a text from my sister. My mother’s dementia is not new but this message from my sister ...
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Capacitance
Coronary sinus that fills and releases. Cascading breath falls to basin. Small branches stretched exhaling temperamental at best. Thumbprints on frosted glass. Windows outlooking lots. Full of forgotten ...
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Here’s How It Will Go
The chest cage and diaphragm, with expansive spirit, cooperate one last time, the discomfort at the depth of the intake a reason to pause, with a sense of ...
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Stay Close to the Willows
Is a country way of sayin’ remain near home, don’t venture far, keep nearby. Once you embody shadow under the pine’s umbrella and grace the riverbank, turn ...
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Farmer’s Market in Pandemic
The Saturday rite is now a drive-by: we’re all laid back in our masks awaiting our turn. The line stretches far down the street; no one expects to ...
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Harbinger
On my walk I notice a hint of yellow on the arched branches of forsythia that grow over an old rock wall— the stones handpicked for fit not ...
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Love in the Time of COVID
Our little mid-century ranch, with its limestone exterior and big picture window, sits clustered together with other mid-century homes—tri-levels and A-frames—in a neighborhood that straddles the bustling city ...
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How I Became Greta and Alan
For an absolute stranger, Bob Coyne calls a lot. Over the past two years or so he has called at least once and sometimes as many as twenty ...
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Ventilator Moon
A streamlet of breath trickles into shuddering pink caves. Adjust the settings: percent oxygen, breaths per minute, tidal volume. Perhaps tidal volume charts the moon’s pull in anxious ...
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Shame and Blessings at the Coin-Op
Just before the virus drifted into the world, a friend I’d recently met texted that she was nervous. Her washing machine had broken at the worst time, just ...
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