SPOTLIGHT -
July 12th 2024
"...the beauty still intoxicating, the spirit of the research like a child swimming for the first time in the sea, awed..."
July 11th 2024
"By now I’ve lost track of time with this boy who reminds me of myself when I imagined becoming a doctor..."
July 5th 2024
"Remember? Remember wanting to play every minute, as if that was why we were born?"
June 28th 2024
"How free is our will if our fate is decided by our melanin. What is the meaning of Black lives when so many people don’t think we matter?"
June 21st 2024
"Of all the questions you might want to ask about angels, the only one you ever hear is how many can dance on the head of a pin..."
The Ordinary Weather of Summer
"In the ordinary weather of summer with storms rumbling from west to east like so many freight trains hauling their cargo of heat and rain..."
Making Room
A psychiatrist shares his reflections on inclusivity... and making room for all.
Love in a Time of COVID-19
"I love you as one loves the sickest patient: terminally, between the diagnosis and the death."
Invisible People
A physician living with mental illness shares their experience through poetry.
Three Digit Light
Reflections on the new suicide hotline...
"The Not Dead"
"...the fresh cut grass a living carpet where all of us lay down and dream death will come to everyone except me."
BIPOC MD/DO Investment
A psychiatrist reflects on the past, present, and future for BIPOC MDs and DOs.
The Not Dead
"We call them The Not Dead when they crumple in an easy chair after chemo..."
A Little Closer to the Edge
"O mother, O minutehand, teach me how to hold a man the way thirst holds water. Let every river envy our mouths. Let every kiss hit the body like a season."
Reflecting on Another Mass Shooting
A physician assistant writes a poem inspired by the recent mass shooting in Uvalde.
Sequelae
Poetic reflections on today's news...
Thank You
"...you are the air of the now and gone..."
Fatherly Attributes
A psychiatrist's reflections on Father's Day.
A Psychiatrist's Reflections: Jubilant Juneteenth
Reflections on Juneteenth...
"The Algebra of Kindness"
"And we laughed again because he made us feel safe and loved, even when we stumbled, his calculated goal to teach us how to solve for X when X equals kindness."
The Algebra of Kindness
There are only three kinds of people in the world, those who are good at math and those who aren’t.
The Bridge
"And right here, walking down this street, I love the way we make a bridge..."
Bullets: Psychiatric and Humanistic Reflections in a Haiku
Catatonic Humanity
A psychiatrist reflects on society's catatonic state.
The Power of Words: Achieving Catharsis While Mourning Tragedies
Sometimes poetry can help in processing tragedies and traumas.
Today
"...well, today is just that kind of day."
Making a Fist
"Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own."
Enough
A psychiatrist reflects on yesterday's tragedy in Texas.
"I Cursed Him"
"My mind screams, Sociopath! Liar! but I know he’s gone..."
I Hope
What do you do when there seems to be too much sorrow and hate in the world? One psychiatrist answers, "I hope..."
I Cursed Him
All in Green Went My Love Riding
"All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn..."
Personified Uterus
A psychiatrist reflects on recent events.
Psychological Reflections on Miscarriage
When helping patients in the hardest moments of their lives, it is important to have empathy for them—and for ourselves.
1969
"...we came in peace for all mankind. Then returned to continue the war."