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Silent Spring
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Slipping out of quarantine, we walk hand in hand. Comforting words that this, too, shall pass.
Listen to the recording of thie poem, recited by Richard Berlin, MD: Silent and Solemn Spring.
CORONAVIRUS CHRONICLES
-Series Editor, H. Steven Moffic, MD
Slipping out of quarantine,
we walk hand in hand
by Dunback Meadow
into the nurturance
of pine grove
and Spring’s migrant birds:
warblers, kinglets, and vireos,
sweetly oblivious of virus
or the cold loneliness
of the solitary old.
Just past Clematis Brook,
we see a lone goose,
her belly pressed
against dun meadow grass.
Silent, still, bereft of mate,
she takes no notice.
But in the viral possibilities
that weigh upon us,
we take solemn note
of her.
Disclosures:
Dr Pies is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Lecturer on Bioethics and Humanities, SUNY Upstate Medical University; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; and Editor in Chief Emeritus of Psychiatric Times (2007-2010).
