Albert Howard Carter III (for NCC and RAC) My wife lies in the little room, tight as a drum, and even more convex. She breathes hard as the contractions come. The doctor, some 20 feet away, shares his lunch with me, the husband and coach; My wife, lunchless today, hears this act of betrayal and […]
Hilton Koppe Jeez mate, you are really dead. “Really fucking dead,” as you would say. I don’t need to be a doctor to know that. The cop who rang me was right. You must have been sitting in your lounge chair, dead, for at least twelve hours, maybe more. Looks like you were enjoying a
Jonathan Stockton About the contributor: Jonathan is completing his MFA in photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He photographs in areas where communities form around addiction and documents how these communities change over time. His thesis show will be on view May 11-23 at MassArt’s Bakalar Gallery in Boston, MA. His
Raymond Abbott I never thought it would go on for so long–seeing Donald Wyatt, I mean. I certainly didn’t plan it this way. More than six years ago, I retired at age sixty-six from my social-work job at a mental-health agency. Donald had been my client there for about eight years. As I was cleaning
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Martin Kohn (for Helen) This openness into This brightness onto This bodied and dis-embodied sunken-eyed knowing This close and blinking moment This shutter stop goodbye Your round soft shoulder pillowed beneath a feeble hug The Lord “not quite ready” to take you even though you and Trixie your cat had walked the dark path to
Alan Blum About the artist: Alan Blum is a professor and Gerald Leon Wallace MD Endowed Chair in family medicine at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in Tuscaloosa. A self-taught artist, he has published three books of his sketches and stories of patients, and his artworks have appeared in more than a dozen
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