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  4. Issue 8 – Summer/Fall 2023
  5. Issue 8 – Poetry

Issue 8 – Poetry

Issue 8 – Poetry

The Clang of Distracting Thoughts 

The evening began with a question to myself.

“Will I have to give out medical advice at this wedding, too?”

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Drifting

All the world is on the wind:
Plants coming into bloom,
Distant fires burning forests and homes,
Smokestacks exhaling on the third shift,

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Up to Interpretation

An Epic poem
My E.M.R. symphony
A Haiku haiku

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She Used To

I could die on a day just like this
With a slant of sun casting dramatic shadows on my face
The nattering birds are finally unconcerned now the snow
Is melting into mud and their feeder is full again

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder

The limbic system behind the game
They say it’s all in the brain,
The amygdala that is not the same,
Smaller than all, experiencing more pain!

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In the Wake of the Untimely

It will, like a limb crashing-down
behind you on a wooded path,
cause you to turn, startled,

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Hospital

Argument on hold, we sit. 
The waiting-room phone rings;

we don’t know the name. 
We’re beginning to feel like drones

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A Boy of Green

He’s forgotten, I hear
them whisper, what
he’s learned or loved.

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