Sand Crab Listen*: Transcript: I walked along the bay with my five-year-old nephew. What are those little holes with bubbles coming out? he asked. Sand crabs, I said. They hide …
Tag: Poem
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 …
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 …
The Distant Moon
Listen*: Transcript: I. Admitted to the hospital again. The second bout of pneumocystis back In January almost killed him; then, He’d sworn to us he’d die at home. He baked …
Tumbleweed
Listen*: Transcript: Took him 28 years to pick up that pack of cigarettes. One night my father re-appears in a phlegmy voice from Sunny Farms in California. When I arrive, …