Cheryl Lewis Knotted seams gather scrubbed skinand titanium plumbs a heart–guide wires routing an improvised pulseand tracing an erratic existence. In the beginning doctors saidgenetic mistake, detrimentalmutation, one in 10,000 statistically speaking. God’s will. At night we wrestle with angels.Celestial static, incandescentblue they search our soulsand finger a laboring heart,heavy like dense lumpy claywaterlogged and […]
Michael Terry I stood right beside them as they slowly slid your head into a plastic bag, looped the coarse twine about your neck and tied it tightly. Like the amateurs they were, they double-knotted it to make sure nothing came loose or dripped out. Then they casually walked away, chatting about what would come
Justin Sanders About the artist: Justin Sanders trained as a family doctor and is now pursuing a career in palliative care. He and his wife live in Boston, preparing to welcome their first child into the world. Having studied art history and worked in the fine arts, he has a deep faith in their healing
Kristen Nace You will never see my face or know my name. You probably won’t give much thought to what happens to your blood after your doctor says, “I think we need to run some tests,” and the phlebotomist draws it into the tubes with their colored tops. I know I never did, until I
Tammy Hansen Snell She sat on the curb in her hospital gownpretending not to see me coming.The tube from her hand to the IV pole in the streetlifted the flimsy sleeve of her robe.Cars went by, and we both watched themas if we cared what color they were.The IV pole in the street didn’t matterunless
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Erin O’Branski About the artist: Erin O’Branski is a physician assistant practicing in hematology-oncology at the Duke Cancer Institute. She is also a continuing-education student at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. She is currently documenting art and beauty in everyday life in the hospital, a project which began as a way to process
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