Poem
By Rochelle Hurt
[as jumping from a plane. easier—a bridge. as tripping on a shoelace. as blinking your eyes. as breathing…
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Health & Illness
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- PoemBy Peter KlineIf we’re put here long enough, someone’s bound to learn something. The sweep of the second hand erases…
- PoemBy Georgio RussellWithin this simple chapel, located near the navel
of the little clinic, the walls are all the white
of… - PoemBy Brittany PerhamThe doctor tells her what she can’t eat
no grains no nuts no beans no sugar a tomato is OK
but no skins… - PoemBy Ross WhiteI’m not the first man to lose his father
slowly, not the first to wonder
when I walk in the room if the… - PoemBy Stefania GomezFiremen cut the car open like a cake but when
they reached through the windshield to pull me out
they … - PoemBy Mickie KennedyA house with a pool missing tiles.
Another house, foundation cracked,
the whole left half off-kilter,
like… - PoemBy Kimberly Johnsoni
The last time I lost you, I had turned
To salt. The hospice nurses all assured
An easier passing… - PoemBy Brittany CavallaroI kept the six of spades tacked to my corkboard
and when I had a bad day, I imagined some
exhortation … - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfRebecca Lindenberg on diabetes, a final phone call, and letting yourself fall in love.
- PoemBy Shubhi SahniDownload the descriptive transcript
You’ll wake up in the middle of the night with
shooting pain
Your … - PoemBy Lesley YoungeThe first time
I tell someone I’ve thought about
ending it
is right after the first time
someone tells me…