Ideas of Heaven

Any Good Poem

Richard Berlin, MD, shares Dorianne Laux's "Ideas of Heaven." She is the author of Only as the Day Is Long: New and Selected Poems, which was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.

Dr Berlin has been writing a poem about his experience of being a doctor every month for the past 25 years in the Psychiatric Times™ “Poetry of the Times” column. He is instructor in psychiatry, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, Massachusetts. His latest book is Freud on My Couch.