Adam Lalley is a physician in New York City. He is a winner of the Michael E. DeBakey Poetry Award and the William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition. His writing has appeared in ACEP Now, The Healing Muse, STAT, and the Journal of Medical Humanities.
This poem was originally published in the Fall 2020 issue of Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine (www.theintima.org).
Woods Nash, MPH, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities at the University of Houston
His poems and essays have appeared in JAMA, Academic Medicine, Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine, JGIM, Annals of Internal Medicine, and the Bellevue Literary Review. He is from Glasgow, Kentucky
Jillian Barnet is a retired Doctor of Physical Therapy.
She writes poetry and creative nonfiction from a tiny farm in the Finger Lakes area of New York.
Jennifer L Freed is the author of When Light Shifts, a finalist for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize.
Learn more at Jfreed.weebly.com
By Courtney Davis
Cortney Davis is the author of five poetry collections, most recently Daughter and I Hear Their Voices Singing: Poems New & Selected.
Sophia Gorgens, MD is an emergency medicine resident at Zucker-Northwell NS/LIJ.
She went to medical school at Emory University and undergraduate school at Boston College.
Joan Baranow PhD is a Professor of English at Dominican University in California.
This poem appears in her forthcoming book, “A Slight Thing, Happiness” (Saint Julian Press 2022).