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Rising to Resilience

Will we rise? Or just survive. Hesitate to shake hands Or grab everyone in a warm embrace. Will we still be kind? Or carry on blind. Moving back through the hustle and bustle Or continue to knock on our neighboursā€™ doors. Will we be grateful? Or just frustrated. Of time lost to do what we […]

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for a friend, on the arrival of illness

John O’Donohue     Now is the time of dark invitation Beyond a frontier that you did not expect; Abruptly, your old life seems distant. You barely noticed how each day opened A path through fields never questioned, Yet expected deep down to hold treasure. Now your time on earth becomes full of threat; Before […]

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They Said To Go Home

Julieann Selden   They said to go home. They said the scans look fine, your body will recover, you donā€™t need to be here anymore. They said to go home. They said, ā€œwe donā€™t know if it will come back, but it very well might. Until then thereā€™s not much we can do.ā€ They said, […]

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Nuclear Radiology, 6th Floor

Elisa Duncan   I wonder what They can see inside of me that I canā€™t? Maybe all my organs have changed into produceā€” my heart become an apple, my stomach a winter squash. Maybe my intestines have crocheted themselves an afghan? Maybe I am abuzz with honeybees, or pregnant with a litter of puppies. Maybe […]