INTIMA SPRING 2024 | POETRY
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Behind the Door | Suzanne Travis
Preparing the body and preparing the family are different nursing rituals.
Code OB | Angela Tang-Tan
“God help me, I could not stop seeing the baby.”
Daffodils | Deb O'Rourke
A daughter draws daffodils to help her mother remember.
Help | Aprotim Cory Bhowmik
What will it take to believe a Black woman’s pain?
Mavis Staples Says to Write About My Blessings | Sarah Piper
A physician trades restriction for gratitude in dealing with her autoimmune condition.
Mercury, A Public Service Announcement | Jeanne Yu
Do people care about mercury poisoning? A scientist weaves a quantitative and qualitative narrative.
Oak Burns Slow | Darcy Smith
A grieving father takes to the forest to heal.
Pediatric Hemicraniectomy | Angela Tang-Tan
A medical student contemplates the random unfairness of a holiday gone tragically wrong.
Sestina for My Father | Lynn Lawrence
The radiologist’s daughter cannot escape what people’s bodies reveal.
Seventeen Pocketbooks | Irene Sherlock
A husband remembers his late wife through her favorite accessory.
Thirtieth Birthday | CC Hart
Women keep each other company while waiting for the cancer.
The Trail to Ahous Bay | Dan Yashinksy
The right view can help us reimagine the end.
They Came with the Forsythia | Peg Padnos
A mother writes a “golden shovel” for the birth of her premature twin sons.
Unheard Eulogy | May Ameri
An incoming resident reflects on practicing medicine in the U.S. vs. in Gaza.
We Once Said Duh and No Duh but We Would Mean
Exactly the Same Thing | Woods Nash
“She was taking our whole life with her.”
Worm Food | Carlee Fountaine
A patient accepts her fate with prion disease.