3 Poems by Eliana Jacobs

Eliana Jacobs is a Fulbright Scholar who aspires to become a physician to advocate for the intersectionality of health, education, public health, and writing. She brings awareness towards social determinants of health through her numerous medical poetry publications in Stanford JUSTHEALTH and the Journal of the Student National Medical Association (JSNMA).

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Finding Chemo

With many fish in the sea

holds promising hope in depths unseen

stemmed from hallmarks of coral and sponges 

opens a mission to recover the lungs of our land

by tracing one’s journey in a submarine

Till Death Do We Part

Holding each other hands

surrounded by a chiffon backdrop

and a sermon in-between 

I blanket her face with a veil.

Vowing through better and for worse

to love through sickness and in health

she slowly says, “I do”

as she lays in a flower bed, draped in white.

The Butterfly (Gland) Effect

As her wings untie

imbalance rises heart rate

soaring skies in flames

Eliana Jacobs is a Fulbright Scholar who aspires to become a physician to advocate for the intersectionality of health, education, public health, and writing. She brings awareness towards social determinants of health through her numerous medical poetry publications in Stanford JUSTHEALTH and the Journal of the Student National Medical Association (JSNMA).

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