first heartbeat
Neha Sunkara
April 17, 2026
palliative care
- By Marilyn Powell
- Editor: Michael Dylan Welch
- Haiku
- 2 Comments
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This masterfully written senryu moves palliative care and POLSTs to the very real present rather than the abstract and impersonal place where we like to keep them. I can’t help but wonder is this is the same refrigerator that once held the art of grandchildren.
This is so good and cleverly written,