Poetry

"...everything known and unknown for longer than I have searched or breathed, the infinity of my ignorance."

"The dark pours down, sticky as Coke, but the light from the kitchen gleams like a beacon."

"So many things look absurd from a distance that people still take seriously..."

"At O'Hare, at Atlanta, at Dallas/Fort Worth, it happens every trip, at LaGuardia, Logan, and Washington Dulles, the customary strip..."

"She was clear-eyed and dying when I knew her, soft breaths feathering from her chest like distant smoke..."

A psychiatrist reflects on the Fourth of July in light of current events....

A psychiatrist shares further reflections on the most recent Court decisions...

A psychiatrist finds the recent Supreme Court decision unbecoming...

"The Child is father of the Man..."

A psychiatrist mourns as he reflects on the Supreme Court decision....

"It is not a place out there but a place in here. I catch on its barbed wire in both places."

A psychiatrist reflects on the 2 recent tragedies at sea...

"I sit with my half-filled glass and a life we knew we were choosing..."

A psychiatrist poetically reflects on Juneteenth...

"But you who know all will never comprehend our resentment of perfection, the flawlessness you take for granted..."

"...this memory held on chest, in hand..."

A psychiatrist shares his thoughts and reflections after an inaugural poem receives a "warning"...

"Scores of textbooks later we’re a pair of pagers and missed dinners, companions in sleep-deprived nights."

"I am not comforted by the morning after the night."

A psychiatrist reflects on the passing of a music legend.

"We lower a plastic tray on his ribs as if food can stop the dying..."

How can creativity help dismantle racist structures?

A psychiatrist reflects on the deviations in today's world...

"Nothing is so beautiful as Spring..."

A psychiatrist reflects on the death of Jordan Neely, only a couple of weeks after his murder...

In honor of Mother's Day...

"Everyone thinks the brain is so complicated, but let’s look at the facts."

"We lower a plastic tray on his ribs as if food can stop the dying..."