After the Laceration Repair
Fill basin halfway.
Gently dab away the blood.
Ignore his handcuffs.
Phoebe Prioleau MD is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and have published creative work in Doximity, The Living Hand, Annals of Internal Medicine, and The Journal of Medical Humanities. She writes poetry as a way of holding on to patients and their stories and carving out space for them.