Question: Where is your work published? Answer: “A lot of places. Soon after I started having a lot of medical articles published, I tried to sort out what I thought …
Category: The Poet Speaks
Sleep Talker
Anesthesia Watch*: Transcript: is simple you go to sleep you wake up but it is not quite sleep a drop into blankness a fall, a swoop swung out a curtain …
Monday Morning
Watch*: Transcript: In the prelight A heavy sound from upstairs I turn from the front door to investigate. My three-year-old son stands naked in the soft penumbra of dimmed hallway …
What the Body Told
Listen*: Poet’s Commentary: “What the Body Told represents an evolution, I think, in my writing from trying to, in a way, make sense of the body in terms that I …
Towards Curing AIDS
Listen*: Transcript: I slap on latex gloves before I put My hands inside the wound. A hypocrite Across the room complains that it’s her right To walk away–to walk away’s …
Technology and Medicine
Listen*: Transcript: The transformation is complete. My eyes Are microscopes and cathode X-ray tubes In one, so I can see bacteria, Your underwear, and even through to bones. My hands …
The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World
Listen*: Poet’s Commentary: “I wrote The Other Man Was Me during a break I had between my third and fourth years of medical school. It was a time in my …