Tell Me Again: Poetry and Prose from The Healing Art of Writing, 2012

219 Pages·2013·1.44 MB·English

UC Berkeley
Perspectives in Medical Humanities
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Tell Me Again: Poetry and Prose from The Healing Art of Writing, 2012
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9780988986534
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Baranow, Joan
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2013-12-28

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tell me again
Poetry and Prose from
The Healing Art of Writing, 2012
EdiTEd By
Joan Baranow, Phd
david Watts, Md
First published in 2014
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Table of Contents
Terri Mason • poems
Kindly Remove Your Shoes 1
Strong Medicine 2
Themes 3
David Scronce • poems
My Eden 4
In a New Place 5
I Walk Out to See if I Recognize the Blue Flowers 6
Jenny Qi • poems
Letters to My Mother 7
Playing Dead 8
The Last Visitation 9
Norma Smith • prose
House Calls 10
Marisa Bois • poems
Grandfather Sits Under Eucalyptus Tree 13
I Press My Finger to Your Palm 14
Hush 15
Nina Schuyler • essay
A Character’s Desires 16
Karen Kent • poems
The Bowl 19
True North 21
Dawn Gross • prose
Violet 22
GI Bleeding 28
Mr. Rogers 33
Catharine Clark-Sayles • poems
Mercy 38
The Truth in the Rooms 40
Words Beyond Words 42
Burning 43
Gina Catena • prose
Aha! 44
Eric Hucke • poems
Flying the Hump 51
Everybody Gets Something 53
A Reprieve 55
John Fox • essay
Letting the Light In (And Creative Ways to Spread It Around) 57
Ruth Saxey-Reese • poems
blue hour 65
veni, columba 67
Dear Mr. Haynes, 68
Sarah Paris • poems
Summer Breeze 69
Must I Show It To Her? 70
Ask Her Why She Drinks 72
Fran Dorf • prose
Plastic Man 73
Paul Watsky • poem
The Healing Casebook 86
Meg Neuman • prose
He has drifted back to sleep 87
Alicia Ostriker • essay
Metaphor and Healing: Or, Why Metaphor is Not a Bandage 88
Joan Baranow • poems
By now 97
You’d Like to Know 98
Checking Margins 98
February and plum trees in bloom 99
Suzanne Tay-Kelley • poems
Gelato 100
Starstruck 100
First Date 101
Susan Moldaw • prose
Spinning Through the Heavens 102
Eric Chang • poems
Rosina on the Table 107
Soneto LXVI 109
Range 111
Deborah Steinberg • prose
Pain Map 112
The High Wind 114
Balcony 115
Marilyn Krysl • essay
Litany 116
Joanne Clarkson • poems
The Oldest Sense 121
They Had Already Made Love 123
Watching for Morning 124
LeeAnn Bartolini • poems
French Kissing the Earth 125
HER EYES 126
Starting to work the California garden in winter 127
Katie Amatruda • prose
Something Always Knows 128
Bahareh Amidi • poems
Tomorrow’s Poem 143
What If I Knew 144
The Size of My Foot Print 144
Dawn McGuire • poem
Considering Love in a Strip Mall Laundromat 145
Adam Luxenberg • prose
Two Deaths and a Lesson 146
Julianna Waters • poem
Jim’s Prescription 154
Molly Giles • essay
Odds on Ends 156
Martha Lunney • prose
Push! 166
Fran Brahmi • poems
Hydrangeas 168
As she lay dying 169
Night Rounds 170
Wendy Patrice Williams • prose
My Mother’s Ears 171
David Watts • essay
My Ellis Experiment: Writing Two Sides of Consciousness 181
Kindly remove your shoes
Kindly remove your shoes as you enter the forest.
Everyone here knows your name.
It’s not formal, just necessary.
Make yourself at home among the roots.
We’ve been waiting for you.
You were homeless in your parents’ house,
Jobless at work. What do you have to lose
besides everything you have known?
No questions of like or dislike here,
only deep engines without machines.
Come join us, we provide shelter
between rocks and hard places.
Here leaves lie down, become soil.
Leave your worries on the doorstep
and dream a blue dream for time being.