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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MEDICINE Matches Found: 428 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 19332, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: First at breakfast, now next to me Last Line: Two men behind me playing steel drums Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians A HOSPITAL GOOD-MORNING, by DORA CLAIRE VANNIX Poem Text First Line: Tis five of the clock and the birds are waking Last Line: The cheery, sweet hospital nurse. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Drugs, Prescription A SONG OF A GARDEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a thing a garden is Last Line: To bid grow, to increase! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Animals; Bees; Birds; Dreams; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Herbs; Insects; Medicine; Quiet Life; Beekeeping; Nightmares; Bugs; Drugs, Prescription A TRIBUTE TO DR MURISON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Success to the good and skilful dr murison Last Line: Is the honest confession of mcgonagall. Subject(s): Dundee, Scotland; Honor; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Praise; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors ABUSED CHILD, by MICHAEL O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: You dreamt of being a dancer, but frightened Last Line: The snowflake fell %the batik hung Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ADMISSION, by VENETA MASSON Poem Source First Line: Her eyes would blur %so she couldn't see Last Line: Enter deeper %enter Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses AFTER THE PINATA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Stretch to the sky. I'll hold you tight Last Line: As each conceals its own decay Subject(s): Jews; Medicine AGE GARDEN, by KAREN HOWLAND Poem Source First Line: A boy's head butters the tops of petals Last Line: Under the white daisies of his hair Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ANATOMY LESSON, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I move your body %from its storage drawer Last Line: Filling your stream, %touching the blossoms Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ANOREXIA, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: Not everyone is so skilled Last Line: Biting at her unfeathered heels Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ANYWAY, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: A week before I was admitted here Last Line: About that painting when carol %walked by Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians APPLE CORES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Suppose, just suppose, you're shown Last Line: Translucent, dazzling, and dangerous? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians APRIL ELMS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Jazzed by april's burgeoning mercury Last Line: I found one %pressed to your thigh Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ARMY NURSES, VIETNAM, 1966, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER Poem Source First Line: Too exhausted to swat the flies Last Line: The fine red dust of vietnam coats her helmet, her hands Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ARRIVAL, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR Poem Source First Line: Track this on radar: dark-haired girl in heels Last Line: You must try %and pass through Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ASTRONOMY AND NURSING, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: We passed the cage, watched the minimal Last Line: With your own laser key Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses AT DAVID'S FEET, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I gaze at you from ankle height Last Line: Or posing pensive without clothes Subject(s): Jews; Medicine AT ODDS WITH DEATH, by MICHAEL SLORY Poem Source First Line: The pure and simple cry Last Line: Woe the physicians! Subject(s): Death; Medicine AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH SHIFT, by ALYSON KENNEDY Poem Source Last Line: I am able to breathe Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses AUTOPSY, by JAMES L. FOY Poem Source First Line: It comes as a surprise once more Last Line: Rain, a petal or two Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians AUTOPSY NO. 24722, by SANDRA BISHOP EBNER Poem Source First Line: Dead february 4th. He was sixty-five. That's young, isn't it? Last Line: Before I kneel down to hold her Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses AZALEA POEM, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The hope I handed alfred Last Line: Azalea bloom. And I said, yes Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BABY MADE OF FLOWERS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Close to term, as poppies bloomed Last Line: Slowly filling with flowers Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BANNER HOPES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Banner hopes, and the dusk edges along the wall Last Line: Awhile. I like its sucking sound Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BARK, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: How can you thank a tree? Last Line: With every dying cell Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BASEBALL CAP, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The days are slower, full of empty hours Last Line: The slick radiation scars. %he seldom takes it off Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BASS, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: Because I was 37 and he was 10 Last Line: How hungry %how shining Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BATAAN ANGELS, by ELIZABETH KEOUGH MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: After they survived bataan Last Line: They were the greatest show on earth Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses BEFORE THAT, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Synesthesia, metaplasia. Before that Last Line: Hey everybody, just do the hop Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BEFORE THE BRAIN SURGERY, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: We'd moved out. You'd stayed behind alone Last Line: Suspended over something swift and deep Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BETWEEN ALEXANDRIA AND THE SECOND CATARACT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Row close. This karnak temple's where Last Line: Eureka: 'nefertiti sucks' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BIO 7, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: The year of their ultimate squalor Last Line: They'd made, even as the cutting had begun Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BIOENERGETICS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: He considered the litany of carbons he had spawned-a ragged Last Line: This world ran on glucose Subject(s): Medicine; Teaching And Teachers BIRTH OF FLOWERS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Imagine the shock Last Line: And a new world bloomed Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BLACK NARCISSUS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Her arms swimming in the languid Last Line: Begin, before any of them can be lost Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BLUE HAT, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: The doppler was negative, I said Last Line: It dropped, as if a bird had been shot Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BODY OF KNOWLEDGE: REMEMBERING DIPLOMA SCHOOLS , 1976, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Where have I put the silver Last Line: To the heart, wanted us to remember Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses BOY WHO PLAYED WITH DOLLS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Remembers the family photograph Last Line: You weren't a sissy, you were practicing %to be a doctor Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BRANDY STATION, VIRGINIA, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: A few miles from here, they've unearthed Last Line: If it was ever holy or just wood, %like the tall planks christ was laid on Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BREATH, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Called late to your bedside Last Line: From your shining head Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BREATHING-SPOONS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Breathing-spoons. That's what my grandmother Last Line: With a veil. You're so elegant, she says Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BREATHLESS, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Dear trent, today I was remembering the clay faces of Last Line: Sinful to rescue angels Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses BRIDGE, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: Cat cries, dog barks; on a hill a starling Last Line: To keep the pulsing bridge afloat Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses BROKEN SILENCE, by LOUIS M. ABBEY Poem Source First Line: Twenty-five years ago I lied Last Line: The only sound in the world Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians BULGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Alas, it's back. The tugging at the waist Last Line: There's simply the decision how and when Subject(s): Jews; Medicine BURN, by HANNE DINA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: His face sooty and distended Last Line: He begins to brush his teeth Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses BUTTERFLY, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I desire to say something explicit Last Line: Am I explicit? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CALCIUM, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Sort it out, folks, simplify. Now imagine yourself Last Line: His arms and torso into a strange and wonderful shape Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CALL AND RESPONSE, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: So this is the smell of trouble Last Line: Crazy woman, woman without a brain Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CALLING THE DOCTOR, by JOHN WESLEY HOLLOWAY Poem Source First Line: Ah'm sick, doctor man, ah'm sick! Subject(s): Medicine CANDOR, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE Poem Source First Line: At eight years old, his cancer running rampage Last Line: Tell you to pick up after yourself Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CAREER DAY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: She stood, starched white Last Line: Pianissimo, pale through hospital halls Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CARETAKER, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I've watched tendrils prod the potted clay Last Line: We'll both pretend fresh tendrils prod the loam Subject(s): Jews; Medicine CARMELITA, by D. A. FEINFELD Poem Source First Line: The first time I see Last Line: After your luckies were spent Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CARNAL KNOWLEDGE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: You, student, whistling those elusive bits Last Line: Scrapes, scrapes the windowpane Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CEMETERY WINGS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a bright swarm of pennies in the grass, or Last Line: At being carried away by such small wings. Subject(s): Allergies; Medicine; Memory; Drugs, Prescription CHAMBERED NAUTILUS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: At first it seems random, this leaving Last Line: In search of another vacancy Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CHANGE OF SHIFT, by MIRIAM BRUNING PAYNE Poem Source First Line: The day staff hurries in Last Line: Sweet alarm %for the change of shift Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CHAPEL, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: There is a chapel downstairs. I passed it twice Last Line: What harm is there to accept his prayer? I could borrow %his god for a while Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CHARLIE'S KOAN, by PATRICIA MAHER Poem Source First Line: Seventy-four pounds charlie, you've lost some Last Line: He is smiling Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CHARM OF THE NINE HEALING HERBS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mugwort recalled %what you showed us all Last Line: And the waters clear forever Subject(s): Herbs; Medicine CHEMO, by JANET BERNICHON Poem Source First Line: In the waiting room- %the contradiction of healthy Last Line: I can adjust my wig %in its reflection Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CHERRY ELIXIR: THE FIRST MEDICATION. SO MARY POPPINS, by D. A. POWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Last Line: In the bowels the belly & the mouth. Want my goddamn cocktail Subject(s): Homosexuality; Medicine CHEST X-RAY, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: She adjusts my hip, spine, shoulder Last Line: Of hiroshima and nagasaki Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CHIEF OF MEDICINE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: Anton steiner sits behind a rosewood desk Last Line: My future depends on it, that is all Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CHIMES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: It sounded like chimes. How else Last Line: I am five, listening to its chimes: b'alma %di v'ra khir'utei, v'yamlikh malkhutei Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CHINESE MEDICINE, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: In accordance with instructions Last Line: From its bed of chinese blue Subject(s): Medicine CHRISTMAS, BELFAST, by ROBERT+(1) COLES Poem Source First Line: Waterford crystal smuggled from the republic into paisley's turf Last Line: The kitchen warm with their cooking Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CLINIC, by GRACE HERMAN Poem Source First Line: She tells us she felt Last Line: Runs ahead and takes her with it Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CODE BLUE, by JANET BERNICHON Poem Source First Line: The center of strangers %oxygen death masked Last Line: Can you hear me? %daddy? Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses COINCIDENTALLY, by FREDERIC W. PLATT Poem Source First Line: She wants me to hear the whole story Last Line: Yes, I say %quite a coincidence Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians COMING HOME LATE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: I latch the garage door, retrieve Last Line: We washed our faces with snow Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians COMMUNAL LIVING, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: When we were young and immortal Last Line: Uncombed heads and laughed Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CONFABULATION, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: Striding up to his bed, you Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CONVERSATION AS MY TUMOR ADVANCES, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Turning towards the voice that he rumbles at me Last Line: Sounds that cry their prayer for understanding- %just crackle in deaf ears Subject(s): Jews; Medicine CONVERSATION WITH WENDY, by AMY HADDAD Poem Source First Line: We dream %our hair is long Last Line: I keep it cropped close to my head Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses COUGH MEDICINE, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grape robitussen tastes like melted lollipop Last Line: Down the bathtub drain, who are frozen in place forever Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription COUNTING THE CHILDREN, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Five kids round up fiddler crabs into blue Last Line: There's nothing but water's nothing sound Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Nurses; Seashore; Water COVERT TO ZERO, by GERI ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: By the time I got there she had thrown Last Line: On the end of the bed Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses CRICKET, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: They keep this place so clean. It's Last Line: It's almost the only thing I can count on Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians CRICKETS WENT ON SINGING, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: I remember the night you told me Last Line: Your smile half-crazed before you forgot Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses D-DAY, 1994, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your arm is gone Last Line: Their battles, which are almost used up %but still true Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DAMIEN, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Hardly a day goes by I don't think of him Last Line: Like ragged lightning in the night sky Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DANCE, by ANDREA LEE BELIVEAU Poem Source First Line: To partner with a stranger Last Line: Matching the technical tones Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses DANS LE PALAIS NOSTALGIQUE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: This belgian spiegeltent has survived a century Last Line: Leaving us ravished, our stomachs and hearts full Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DAR A LUZ, by KIRSTIN BORTZ Poem Source First Line: There was an indescribable energy in the room Last Line: What a beautiful light you have brought into this world Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses DARK LINES AND WORDS, by GEOFFREY BOWE Poem Source First Line: Paint me' %said the patient Last Line: I will show %your true colors' Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses DAY STALIN DIED, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I leaned my weight against the mower Last Line: And was planning a nonviolent protest in town Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DEJA VU, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I close my eyes, recall a scene of you Last Line: As I gazed at you hungrily back then? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DELIVERANCE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: There's an age your son will swing Last Line: Prepare, with luck, to wipe his brow Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DINING OUT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Though not exactly the milieu Last Line: With stretchers and wheelchairs Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DIRE WARNINGS: UNCLE LIAM: ON ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE, by ELAINE HATFIELD Poem Source First Line: Don't sit too close to the tv. You'll go blind Last Line: Don't eat raw bread dough. You'll get worms Subject(s): Medicine; Uncles DIRTY TREE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: How it became the enemy-he's not quite sure Last Line: He never filled its grave Subject(s): Jews; Medicine DIVIDING THE DARK INTO PARCELS, by PATRICIA BARONE Poem Source First Line: The ones who stay awake all night Last Line: Won't my mother %come Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Rooms; Sickness DOCTOR, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Guilty, he does not always like his patients Last Line: Tears from eyelashes of the daughter Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DOPPELGANGER, by ANNE WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: I'm here to tell you it's not that easy being Last Line: Figures in the chart, numbers in the red zone Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses DOUBLE MAGNOLIA, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Sprouting up from the crushed Last Line: With their net of nectar Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians DOWN THE HOSPITAL CORRIDOR, by HANNE DINA BERNSTEIN Poem Source First Line: A hesitant wave of a hand Last Line: Takes fifteen minutes %or more Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses DRUG STORE, by JOHN VAN ALSTYN WEAVER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon me, lady, but I wanta ast you Last Line: If I ever get it... Subject(s): Ambition; Medicine; Retail Trade; Drugs, Prescription; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers DYNAMIZER AND THE OSCILLOCLAST, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the machine, the dynamizer Last Line: And then, my friends, the sick, come in Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians EAST NEW YORK, 1943, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Pitkin avenue is not yet captive of the new automobile Last Line: And like a physician, they decide its fate Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ECHOLALIA, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Perhaps it's language, in the end Last Line: Having nothing more to say Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors EL CURANDERO (THE HEALER), by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am bathing. All my greyness Last Line: The world away, I know it is my own Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY, by ELSPETH CAMERON RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: This motor won't start Last Line: I feel my sex jumping Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ELEVENTH FLOOR, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: A van near the west parking lot sells bagels Last Line: Oncology is so far away Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ELKA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: And when I touch you, do you think of him? Last Line: His spirit through my veins. I'm yours to use Subject(s): Jews; Medicine EMBERS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: This loving thing-it's not for mom and dad Last Line: And brushes pointed lips to tilted cheek Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ENVY, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The day might envy rival night Last Line: As long as you are near to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine EURYCLEIA, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: Trek back home with the scars Last Line: Some identify and reveal-some disguise Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses EURYDICE IN THE STATE HOSPITAL LAUNDRY, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN Poem Source First Line: Sheets boil up fresh in bluing Last Line: The pill in my cheek Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses EVERY DAY, THE PREGNANT TEENAGERS, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: Assemble at my desk, backpacks Last Line: The places you'll go, the places you'll go! Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses EVIDENCE ON FILM, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: Here's a live one Last Line: He'll catch the soul escaping Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians FAITH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: To my dog who doesn't fetch Last Line: To the pampering hand. %you know what counts Subject(s): Jews; Medicine FAMILY DOCTOR, by DOROTHY BLADIN HILL Poem Text First Line: Out of a world of black ignorance and ... Fear Last Line: To help the world face yet another day. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription FANNY: 53, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In physic, we have francis and m'neven Last Line: And make a starveling druggist if apollo Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Health; Medicine FEELING NO PAIN, by JAMES SCHUYLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless the ear doc Subject(s): Illness; Ears; Medicine; Drugs, Prescription FETUS PAPYRACEOUS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Sometimes one of the twins dies Last Line: Our imagined lives are written Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians FIFTH FINGER, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: A tissue slide on the microscope Last Line: Cancer institute, I became expert %at this Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians FINAL SERVICE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The curved funeral parlor bench Last Line: Too small to hold %the paul you recall Subject(s): Jews; Medicine FIRST CRASH CESAREAN, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Hold it like a wand, you say Last Line: Placing the closing stitch in her uterus, %like pulling a rabbit out of a hat Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians FIRST PAYMENT, by JON MUKAND Poem Source First Line: In the waiting room, she releases Last Line: As an offering to the spring wind Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians FORGERY, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: With the gorgeous, ran with the anonymous, ran with cold dark blood Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses FORGET-ME-NOTS, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Stork stories notwithstanding, close watching Last Line: With powder sieving down on everything Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses FOUR MEN, SITTING, by SCOTT CHISHOLM LAMONT Poem Source First Line: I pause for a moment %and look up Last Line: We are five men, sitting %with you Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses GAUDEAMUS IGITUR: A VALEDICTION, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: For this is the day of joy Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GETTING TO SLEEP IN NEW JERSEY, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: Not twenty miles from where I work Last Line: Hungry for morning and the perfect word Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GHAZAL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Oh to shriek passion to the winds Last Line: It's not for justice. It's for release Subject(s): Jews; Medicine GHAZALS: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is thin and watery; fish in the air Last Line: Him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Medicine; Night; Sex; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Bedtime GIVING WAY, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: It seems we've been granted Last Line: That we have made? Ah, september- %ninth month fully gravid before us Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GODDAM STREET, by ROBERT+(1 COLES Poem Source First Line: I know her children Last Line: Answered, not around here Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GOOD-BYE, by ALICE CAPSHAW Poem Source First Line: I stroked your arm slowly from shoulder to wrist Last Line: This I had to do Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses GREAT MALADIES, LONG MEDICINES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To an old soare a long cure must goe on Last Line: Great faults require great satisfaction. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription GREEN DODGE, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I was about to call my father. I know Last Line: My father smiled. I walked him to his chair Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GREEN DUST, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: An old man arcs his slim wooden fishing pole Last Line: Like winter moonlight on a russian lake Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians GURNEY TEARS, by AUDREY SHAFER Poem Source First Line: Morning frost cocoons my car Last Line: Under the white, white covers Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HALF BILLION - MORE OR LESS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I asked an agricultural economist how Last Line: At a population of twenty billion, more %or less Subject(s): Future; Life; Medicine; Physicians; Survival HANDS BECKONING, by RICHARD YAKIMO Poem Source First Line: I accept his hand in mine, discretely assess the warmth of the Last Line: Pole instead of my cold stethoscope Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses HE MAKES A HOUSE CALL, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: Six, seven years ago Last Line: When you bled in my hands like a saint Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Gays & Lesbians; Death; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors HER FINAL SHOW, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said it was a better way to die Last Line: Before pronouncing her to no applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HER NAME IS ROSE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: With a boil the size of an egg Last Line: Are these, beginning to twitch? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HIKING TO TSAGAGLALAL PETROGLYPH, THINKING OF GUY ANDERSON AT 90, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: High above the valley, where midday sun makes a kiln Last Line: The blank o of a moon rising over water Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HIS DAUGHTER IN SHUL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: His daughter slips from his lap, sidles along the bench Last Line: She has years to learn real reasons for prayer Subject(s): Jews; Medicine HISTORY OF THE DETECTION OF DEATH: 1. THE ARGUMENT, by RUTH HERSCHBERGER Poem Source First Line: Medicine has wondered at the numb Last Line: Lips, lungs, put on death's sepulcher disguise Subject(s): Biology And Biologists; Death; Medicine; Science HOLE IN THE WEB, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: After two days of high fever, dry cough Last Line: Of a poisonous flower opening Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HOLOCAUST TORAH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The scroll is cloaked in glass Last Line: Someday grandpa daniel %will whisper once again Subject(s): Jews; Medicine HOME VISITS, by PAULA SERGI Poem Source First Line: No wonder I paused at their doorsteps Last Line: Little cloud-tufts of hair, haloes for the almost dead Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses HOMEOPATHY, by PAULA MCLAIN Poem Source First Line: The man howling at the rain on amsterdam might diagnose Last Line: Exhale to impress a new seriousness if you wake unwell %gargle salt and ash while remembering you ha Subject(s): Medicine; Sickness HORSESHOES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: It's slipping by, tiny aliquots Last Line: Green beans and a slice of meat Subject(s): Horseshoes; Medicine; Memory; Physicians HOUSE CALL TO A MAN WITH PARKINSON'S DISEASE, by MICHAEL O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: You must have Last Line: And when you smile for her, the flowers bloom beneath the snow Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians HOW I'M ABLE TO LOVE, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I'm stunned by death's absence Last Line: The familiar dead and the dead yet to be born Subject(s): Death; Love; Medicine; Nurses HYDROCEPHALIC, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: How to describe this light? Last Line: Pure tone of an empty bell Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians I HAVE TWO SONS AND THE ONE I LOVE BEST IS ROBERT, by PAULA TATARUNIS Poem Source First Line: Why she should trouble her young Last Line: The unacceptable sacrifices %of all the other sons Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians I'M GONNA SLAP THOSE DOCTORS, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because the rosy condition Last Line: On the way to the goddamn heavenly choir Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IN AUGUST, MY SISTER, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: And her husband bring the new baby Last Line: That will not condense %into a life Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians IN THE HOSPITAL, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grimed with misery, want, and sin Last Line: He knew, at last what life had meant. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness IN THE HOSPITAL IT'S TWO O'CLOCK, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Enter the room, double Last Line: Its' denied him Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Sickness IN THE OR, by ROBIN CHARD Poem Source First Line: We live %here behind our masks, here, being ourselves Last Line: You will see us: our essence, our nature, our love Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses IN THE SOLARIUM, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: These winter plants remind me Last Line: As soon as she had read them Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses IN THE THEATRE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Sister saying -- soon you'll be back in the ward Last Line: And silence matched the silence under snow Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians INSULIN RECEPTOR, by H. J. VAN PEENAN Poem Source First Line: So elegant, so simple, yet thought Last Line: When an almost-nothing kills Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians INTERN, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Always the ritual of morning rounds: huddled Last Line: And pulled...And pulled Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians INVIRASE, by RODNEY TYNAN JACK Poem Source First Line: The medicine feels like acid inside me Last Line: This poem, wanting to erase what he said %that has to stay Subject(s): Medicine; Poetry And Poets; Sickness INVISIBLE, by KAREN DALE Poem Source First Line: For a time I am invisible, it seems, swathed in thin blankets, waiting in Last Line: He is needed, worshiped, loved Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Radiology; Sickness; Surgery IT WAS MY FIRST NURSING JOB, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: And I was stupid in it. I thought a doctor would not be unkind Last Line: It was my first job %and I was lost in it Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Medicine; Nurses JENNA, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: What does one voice matter more or less? Last Line: If a giving lord exits-his name be cursed Subject(s): Jews; Medicine JOURNAL ENTRY, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Dear anne, he read to hudspeth Last Line: Stricken from the stacks of our public library Subject(s): Medicine; Writing And Writers KAFKA'S GRAVE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Curled on my lap like a cat Last Line: As if among the yard of markers %only he had living progeny Subject(s): Kafka, Franz (1883-1924); Medicine; Physicians KING AND I, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I saw the king and I on an overseas flight Last Line: In three places. My sister denies it completely Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LA MUERTE, by VENETA MASSON Poem Source First Line: Old mother death sits %down beside me Last Line: I am ready to learn Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses LABOUR AND DELIVERY: WHEN LIONS ARE TOO CLOSE, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: His wife and he enter Last Line: When lions come too close Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LABOUR AND DELIVERY: YOU AND YOURS, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: When you add a girl Last Line: Has not landed on you %or yours Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LABRADOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: She stands against the tree Last Line: Another twirling trajectory Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LABYRINTHITIS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Five months ago, the telephone Last Line: Left for him to unravel Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LAST VISIT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: She opens the door enough Last Line: Perhaps this is prayer Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LATE ROSE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: As I scrape the early morning sheen Last Line: Is a greater joy than success Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LE MAS DU LUBERON, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I stretch my legs after a midday meal: fresh morels Last Line: My name is horowitz, abram horowitz of luberon Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LEARNING TO TWO-STEP, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: I'll always remember how we promenaded Last Line: In this way again Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LEAVING MOTHER, 1954, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE Poem Source First Line: We slipped, trampled, tripped Last Line: Of the dying afternoon Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LEO, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Let's talk physics. The advantage of a lever depends on its Last Line: Survival. No risk in that Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LETTER TO WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: We know, doctor williams, you and I Last Line: Sheer, brute, singular %wounded %ourselves Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LEVELS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Focus at em depth- %prions ride astride nucleic threads Last Line: Pretend she doesn't know, %pray he doen't ask Subject(s): Jews; Medicine LIKE A NIGHT WATCHMAN, by ALYSON KENNEDY Poem Source First Line: Like a night watchman composed by vigilance Last Line: Revealing your journey, my journey Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses LIKE ME, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: When I was two, my doctor Last Line: Her third course %of chemotherapy Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LIMERICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A rheumatic old man of white plains Last Line: That's all he gets for his pains Subject(s): Medicine; "drugs, Prescription; LINE DRIVE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: I had come from a dying man's room Last Line: Than the warmth of my hands in his Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LIPIDS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: As he walked the grounds of elmhurst, he stopped Last Line: From the filamentous strands that entangled his life Subject(s): Chemistry; Hospitals; Medicine; Physics LITANY, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Voice coarse from weeks of chanting Last Line: One hand washing the other Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LOFT BEDROOM, TRANQUILITY COTTAGE, ORCAS ISLAND, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: We face the open window, let the salt Last Line: The wake begins to wash against the shore Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LOG OF PI, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I remember the log of pi, the battle Last Line: And is whispered in our ear just once Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LONG DISTANCE CALL, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: Learned the value tuesday %of words Last Line: Finally renewed in a long distance call Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses LONG-TERM COMPANION, by JESSICA SHRADER Poem Source First Line: Not a word in honor of the long-term companion Last Line: More important, you were the love of his death Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses LOS OLIVOS, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: The olive trees grow silently in patches on the shoulders Last Line: To honor you as you had honored me in your choosing Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LOST, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: An already dog-eared map Last Line: Improvising our lines as we go Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LOVESICKNESS: A MEDIEVAL TEXT, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As real as melancholy, baldness, headache Last Line: Following which a cure will usually occur Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LUCK, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Just my luck, I gave up smoking last month Last Line: And the lesion in my lung is gone Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Medicine; Physicians; Smoking LULLABY, by JON MUKAND Poem Source First Line: Each morning I finish my coffee Last Line: Of a clean manila folder Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians LUNCH AND AFTERWARDS. LUNCH WITH A PATHOLGIST, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: My colleague knows by heart the morbid verse Last Line: You're a peculiar fellow, abse Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MADAME BUTTERFLY, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: When a half-crazed woman stepped aboard Last Line: Was the music of our lives Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MALE NURSE WASHING A NUN, by GEOFFREY BOWE Poem Source First Line: Today %he had washed a nun Last Line: Before pulling himself together %and leaving Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses MAMMOGRAPHY: A WORD WITH GRANDMA'S GHOST, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: They tell me I'm high-risk too Last Line: The land raised like an irish fist Subject(s): Family Life - Ireland; Medicine; Nurses MAN WITH A HOLE IN HIS FACE, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He has the lower part Last Line: This man is the man in the moon Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MARISOL, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I quit my nursing job Last Line: Back straight, head high, %everyone calling Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses MEDICAL TYRO WAITING FOR PATIENTS, by C. S. ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The young doctor sits through his advertised hours Last Line: And call number one he hails with delight. Subject(s): Medical Students; Medicine; Patience; Physicians; Professions; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors MEDICINE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The practice of medicine / is not what it was Last Line: You're going to live. Subject(s): Grandparents; Medicine; Past; Women; Women's Rights; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Drugs, Prescription; Feminism MELANCHOLIA, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: All afternoon I worked and reworked my idea Last Line: Like these bare trees awash in amber %framing what it cannot contain Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MERCY AND HEMLOCK, by JANET BERNICHON Poem Source First Line: It's 7:55. %at 8 o'clock, comfortable Last Line: In minutes %in minutes Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses MIDNIGHT SNACK, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: This is the age of mellow rooms, paper Last Line: There's enough for all the men tonight Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MILLIE'S DATE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: With sedative voices we joke and spar Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MIRACLE, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: The old man, seated, his boiled turnip eyes Last Line: But a silver needle, poised %above the blind eye Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MISCARRIAGE: THE NURSE SPEAKS TO THE BABY, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: We are going back to the dirty Last Line: Vine of warm ground %born to suffer loss Subject(s): Babies; Death; Loss; Medicine; Nurses MISS SMITH, by PATRICIA MAHER Poem Source First Line: I have only good memories Last Line: When I'm ready to fly %I will Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses MOMENTS WITH ALVIN, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: With frosted mugs, we sip the years away Last Line: We've learned to hide it from the other's dimming eyes Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MONDAY, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Miami beach: everyone is eighty-two. Fourteen men Last Line: I'm trying to think of a treatment for mr. Vallone Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MONDAY MORNING, by AUDREY SHAFER Poem Source First Line: In the prelight Last Line: Ready to sleep Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MOTHER JUNKIE, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She has the shakes, thinks she's gonna die Last Line: To the east river, five blocks away Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Abuse; Medicine; Substance Abuse; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin; Drugs, Prescription; Addictive Behavior MOTORCYCLE WARD, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: I can't say much about richie savalo Last Line: In the thrumming cylinders of my heart Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MRI, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: In the mr waiting room, gown pants and booties Last Line: I answer, nothin' beats it Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MRI OF A POET'S BRAIN, by VERNON ROWE Poem Source First Line: In this image Last Line: Of one %tiny %poem Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MURMUR, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: They cut open his chest Last Line: Remember me...Remember me Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MY DAUGHTER GRADUATED FROM LAW SCHOOL TODAY, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I pulled out an old photo. This is july Last Line: Of the earth. She was two years old Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MY FATHER'S SHADOW, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I am my father's shadow, faint and elliptical Last Line: It barely shimmers in the autumn breeze Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians MY FEAR OF THE UTOPIAN, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: He talks of sweetness, love, epiphanies Last Line: Let us rot in peace Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MY FIRST DEATH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: For me, it started when we placed my son on the cart Last Line: Maybe wide enough for two Subject(s): Jews; Medicine MY JARED, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I love him when he offers his gallant elbow, %eases grandma from her seat Last Line: I love him when I hear his call at night %knowing it's my son Subject(s): Jews; Medicine NATCHAUG HOSPITAL BLUES [CHILDREN'S UNIT BLUES], by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It ends with louis armstrong banned from the children's ward Last Line: Hector, blues come like a thief, hold fast to what you heard Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NEGATIVE CONDITIONING, by VENETA MASSON Poem Source First Line: At first it was just the needles she hated Last Line: Each time %a rehearsal Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NEONATAL ICU, by LEIGH WILKERSON Poem Source First Line: Surely there are poems hidden here. Surely Last Line: In rafters high above the factory floor Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NEUROANATOMY SUMMER, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: The even-flow of neuronal pattern was visible Last Line: More important than me was writing a paper, I thought Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NEW JERSEY BOYS, by ROBERT+(1) COLES Poem Source First Line: You two gardeners Last Line: And give back to us, maybe our only chance Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NIGHT CALL, by GEORGE+(2) YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Sunday night, 2:00 a.M. Last Line: Is empty. The snow is falling down Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NIGHT SHIFT, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: How much longer?' the mother asked %and we told her Last Line: When we turned the monitor off Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NOSOPHILIA, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: For one it's insomnia, tremor, migraine Last Line: Bunion. Harelip. Warts and all Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NOT GOD, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I thought to delay the answer, camouflage Last Line: Ask me a question that only god can answer? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NOT MINE, by SCOTT CHISHOLM LAMONT Poem Source First Line: My colleagues %tell me of the ones Last Line: I don't feel %lucky Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NUMBER OUR DAYS, by NORBERT HIRSCHHORN Poem Source First Line: Names. %she and my uncles looked for names Last Line: Dead mothers to the right Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians NURSE IN THE TERRIBLE DOORWAY, by ERIC ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: Calls my name, a clipboard Last Line: But not yet %cured, never cured Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness NURSE'S FAREWELL, by PAMELA MITCHELL Poem Source First Line: Calling %my hands guided my nurse's Last Line: And compassion is on the list of endangered species Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NURSE'S JOB, by VENETA MASSON Poem Source First Line: The nurse's job is to make it better %whatever it is Last Line: This nurse is doing her job Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses NURSING 101: PEDIATRIC ROTATION, by ANDREA VLAHAKIS Poem Source First Line: I was %a student and he %was three Last Line: My weariness %overgrows in Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses OBJECT OF DESIRE, by JANET BERNICHON Poem Source First Line: How smoothly the cancer seduces the body Last Line: How smoothly the body seduces the mind Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses OLD MAN IN BEDCLOTHES, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR Poem Source First Line: Maybe you think no one is under these blankets Last Line: Creaking out to sea. Gone, like a window %opening in august Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses OMAR ON THE BEACH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Arise! The weatherman predicts today Last Line: Oh, desert, thou art rockaway to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine ON DUTCH'S DEATH, by ROBERT+(1 COLES Poem Source First Line: The doctor's face on a december day Last Line: In ways that helped them see Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ON HYGIENE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried Last Line: Both how to make men sick and keep them so Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription ON HYGIENE, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of old when folk lay sick and sorely tried Last Line: Both how to make men sick and keep them so Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Medicine ON SWITCHING FROM NURSING TO ENGLISH, by PAULA SERGI Poem Source First Line: Losing the white nursing shoes was easy Last Line: Where am I headed with a longer, %misspelled resume? Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY FATHER'S DEATH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: I scoop up fine sand with the plastic shovel Last Line: From the stubble to a dry dispersing wind Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ONE, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR Poem Source First Line: We built walls nobody could get through Last Line: I could hear his mother calling him Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ONE-ON-ONE WITH DYLAN THOMAS, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm taking my break outside the detox unit Last Line: All right damn it, force us to choose Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses ORIGIN OF MUSIC, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: When I was a medical student Last Line: And play them like castanets Subject(s): Life Change Events; Medicine; Physicians OUTSIDE HIS DOOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I raise my hand to knock Last Line: Racing for the dregs Subject(s): Jews; Medicine OVER ROANOKE, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: From thirty-three thousand feet Last Line: Are tucked alongside. I don't see how anyone gets across Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PAIN, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE Poem Source First Line: From some unsought somewhere Last Line: Its place again at table Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PAINTING THE NUDE, by ERIC DYER Poem Source First Line: His morning posture is sketched naked Last Line: And breaking at last from his opening eyes Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PARTING PEARLS OF A SEX EDUCATOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Our freudian struggle represents Last Line: And fondling handsome necrophiles' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PAS DE DEUX, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Odd to be scarfing scrambled eggs & toast Last Line: And a crackling sound something like applause Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PATHOLOGY OF COLOURS, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I know the colour rose, and it is lovely Last Line: Like a soldier's ribbon on a tunic tacked Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PEACHES, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: The sapling in his south yard's infected Last Line: Watching the pink-orange sun go down Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PEDIATRIC NURSE OVER TIME, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: Now finally-time Last Line: Your big brother offered animal cookies Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PELICANS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: One pelican after another dives Last Line: Seems to offer me half his fish Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PERHAPS MIRIAM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Smoking exorcised overnight Last Line: That swell your hidden nodes, tilting %into your blood Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PICK UP THE SPOON, by GEOFFREY BOWE Poem Source First Line: You flicker %like a faulty striplight Last Line: Sometimes, %missing a beat Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PILLS AT THREE PACES, by NANCY G. WESTERFIELD Poem Source First Line: How they duel: his pill-bottles parading Last Line: And evening exchange their fire: over breakfast's %unarmored cereal dinner's defenseless casserole Subject(s): Medicine PINGUID, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I came across this word unexpectedly Last Line: Along the surface, viscous and opaque, pinguid and smooth Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PLANTATION BITTERS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To be, or not to be, that is the question Subject(s): Medicine; Mnemonics POEM OF MEDICINE PUNS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I, belladonna, am the wife of a man named wahoo Last Line: So furze tell me what you mean and don't make such a rhubarb Subject(s): Medicine; Puns POETIC ARS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I sit with mighty pen in hand Last Line: I think I'd rather get a date Subject(s): Jews; Medicine POLITICS OF DISEASE, by ELIZABETH KEOUGH MCDONALD Poem Source First Line: She flew to canada from africa-sick. Cough and fever Last Line: I've looked out enough windows to know what passes by, %enters Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PORT-A-CATH, by AMY HADDAD Poem Source First Line: Button made of skin Last Line: Shining at dinner parties Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PORTRAIT, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN Poem Source First Line: Your turn from health to illness Last Line: The padded table, cleared, holds %the imprint of lifted plates Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PORTUGAL LAUREL, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: At times I fear Last Line: Which I know by tomorrow %will be gone Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians POT OF RED LENTILS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Simmers on the kitchen stove Last Line: To our lips, filling us %with what endures Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians POTTER, by MICHAEL O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: Took %two snowdrops to fall off the world Last Line: We will stay in love forever, until morning Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PRAXIS, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: There's a portion of the brain Last Line: Reluctantly nods as he passes it to me Subject(s): Jews; Medicine PRE-OP, by GERI ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: Smocked in blue, nurses flock % to my body as the snows Last Line: In all the tattered gardens %it is spring Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PREDICTION, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: The world might end in crispness Last Line: Will fly, thick as the day the world began Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians PREMATURE, by HELEN TRUBEK GLENN Poem Source First Line: I am assigned %to bring the infant Last Line: I know the formalities, %the courtesies of the morgue Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses PROGNOSIS, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why should a breast that never fed Last Line: Against the rule, are taking their toll Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Breasts; Disease; Medicine PUTTING THE GARDEN TO REST, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Today you clipped long, thin verticals Last Line: Then disappears into the white sky Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians QUESTION OF VITAMINS, by RON CHARACH Poem Source First Line: Lunch at the mars Last Line: Wadda you know %you got a job Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians RAINY SEASON, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: It's the rainy season in virgin gorda Last Line: A human being, undoing creation Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians RECIDIVISM, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Habitual or chronic relapse - nowadays it primarily refers Last Line: Where dialect has mutated along its own cavernous course Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians RED POLKA-DOT DRESS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I can't decide what to do Last Line: And that's me holding her hand. %I see, I said Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians REDEMPTION AT THE WOMEN'S CENTER, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR Poem Source First Line: She swings her legs and kicks the table hard Last Line: Humming a tune she can't quite place Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses REGRET, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: One day you will slip into an airport Last Line: Will have learned what I have taught you Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians REMEMBER ME, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I stalk my thoughts while they're in flight Last Line: Show me. Are you really here!' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine REPETITION, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I see %the bleak parakeet dancing Last Line: And then again, and again Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ROSEMARY, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: 6 a.M. All over the world Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians ROUND KILLAR, by ERIC DYER Poem Source First Line: This strippr is dancing Last Line: That I am a square Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians RUBBING HER BACK AT THE NURSING HOME, by MAUREEN TOLMAN FLANNERY Poem Source First Line: The ridge road of her spine Last Line: And the daily toil of it %bent her to a hay hook Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses RULE OF THIRDS, by JACK COULEHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Third, third, third -- the rule I learned Last Line: The language of the body %in its genes Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians RX FOR NURSES: BRAG!, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER Poem Source First Line: I am alumnus of the year from schools I've never heard of Last Line: If there were nurse of the millennium, %it would be me Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors S.W., by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Extending from her left ear down her jaw Last Line: Instructions on the care of wounds. She left Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SAILOR EXPLAINS KISSING THE NURSE, by KATHLEEN WALSH SPENCER Poem Source First Line: I didn't care who she was, this cloud of white Last Line: Could even whir through the camera Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SAND CRAB, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I walked along the bay Last Line: It up, my nephew laughed Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SANDOR VADAY, WITH HODGKIN'S DISEASE, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: This wreath of herbs Last Line: Making room for death Subject(s): Disease; Medicine; Sickness SAY YES, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: If I cut down on fatty foods, lose Last Line: Excoriated world. I must try it sometime Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SAYING THE WORLD, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: If a dream is the answer to a question Last Line: Imagine the silver lily returning %before we say goodnight Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SCARLET CROWN, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I met a man my age running a greenhouse Last Line: Or dancing-bones Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SCHOOL NURSE'S JOURNAL, by CELIA BROWN Poem Source First Line: Outside the school the kids swat about Last Line: Higher and higher to pump at dreams, %airy as fifty snowflakes Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SEMAPHORE, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Sometimes a word seems to fall Last Line: Von hippel-lindau disease Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SENSELESS BEAUTY, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: A breezy updraft whips cirrocumulus Last Line: The sky so damn blue Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SENSUALIST, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, capsicum, cast off they membranous pods Last Line: Compounded spices, come: dissolve in me Subject(s): Medicine SEPTEMBER, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Today I've decided to stop looking Last Line: That's where I'd want any poem to end Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SHADOW AND SPIRIT, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: We were half-undressed in the bedroom when Last Line: Cuffed wrists making a heartshape of her hands Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SHAPE OF THE HUMAN SPINE, by SANDRA BISHOP EBNER Poem Source First Line: The patient picks up %a wrench from the table Last Line: I did a good job tightening the bolts %on her wheelchair. I think Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SHIFTS, by JEANNE LEVASSEUR Poem Source First Line: I'm two months out of nursing school when mattie says Last Line: And that's how shocking %my first one was Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SHOE BOX, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Sooner or later it returns to Last Line: Vanished in that box Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SHOTS, by BELLE WARING Poem Source First Line: Three nurses to hold him, this four-year-old who kicks me Last Line: Whether the fruit is ripe or not Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SIGH, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: I sighed this morning, a slow deep inspiration Last Line: To keep the sigh inside Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SIX BUILDINGS: 1. DRUGSTORE, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: The motif is 'the supplier' though purposely vague. No Last Line: Which silver needles and granular emeralds have been laid Subject(s): Medicine; Pharmacy And Pharmacists; Red Cross SIX BUILDINGS: 2. HOSPITAL, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: Large, low, whirring block of perfectly white, perfectly Last Line: Sharply with the bright salmon of the vestigial lid Subject(s): Healing; Hospitals; Medicine SIXTEEN STANDING HOURS, by FAITH VROMAN Poem Source First Line: For years I looked into the face of life and death Last Line: Then I'll look you in the eye Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SMALL GIRL BRINGS AN INJURED BIRD INTO THE SURGERY, by MICHAEL O'REILLY Poem Source First Line: March, now, and almost the season Last Line: Because they have burnt me at the catherine-wheel Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SONG FOR MY LOVER: 13. TOWARDS CURING AIDS, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slap on latex gloves before I put Last Line: I leave him pleading. There's too much to do Variant Title(s): Towards Curing Aid Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SONNET FOR SARAH, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: No need to cinch her bathrobe belt. She waits Last Line: She thinks, 'why can't it all just melt away?' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine SPECIMEN DAYS: PATENT-OFFICE HOSPITAL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: February 23. - I must not let the great hospital at the patent-office pass Last Line: From there, and it is now vacant again Subject(s): Amputees; Hospitals; Medicine; Military Service, Voluntary; Nurses; War Injuries SPRING TONICS, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love it when the folks begin Last Line: Just yell an' dance an' make 'em cry! Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription STANDING THERE, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Our history isn't an album of healers Last Line: And run-no matter how close %the lightning gouged Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses STATISTICAL CAUSES OF TRAUMATIC SHOCK SYNDROME IN GAZA: CHART 7, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Number of children who experienced a gunshot wound Last Line: Numbering chill %chilling numbness Subject(s): Jews; Medicine STEAM BATH, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: My younger brother stood in the center Last Line: Drawn in. A breath's pushed out Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians STETHOSCOPE, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Through it Last Line: Traveling from where it began Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians STETHOSCOPE, by SHIRLEY KOBAR Poem Source First Line: You frighten us %with your hollowed cheeks Last Line: Contact with skin to skin, %breath to breath Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses STORY OF MR. PRESIDENT, by NINA HOWES Poem Source First Line: When I worked at the county hospital there was this nurse who Last Line: Dent! Mr. President!' as if she were at some white house press %conference Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses STROKE, by ARTHUR GINSBERG Poem Source First Line: Comes down, white as an avalanche Last Line: Than speech, the vespers of silence Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians STUFF I LEARNED IN NURSING SCHOOL, by ANNE WEBSTER Poem Source First Line: To say all the forbidden words Last Line: Get through that terrible time Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SUITE FOR A SISTER: 1. SUSTENANCE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: My sister was very sick Last Line: The other the study %of silence Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SUITE FOR A SISTER: 2. MADRONA, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: My sister died when she was five Last Line: Half dying, half alive Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SUITE FOR A SISTER: 3. I DREAM MY SISTER IS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Our family is camping at larrabee state park when we wake up to find she Last Line: Its front cut open Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SUITE FOR A SISTER: 4. SUZY Q, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: After my sister died Last Line: Strapped into life jackets Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SUITE FOR A SISTER: 5. I DREAM MY SISTER IS STILL ALIVE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: And in fresno, married ten cheerful years to a computer geek she met Last Line: With insulin. I feel so glad I could cry. How much she looks like me Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SUM PRACTYSIS OF MEDECYNE, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Guk, guk, gud day, ser, gaip quhill ye get it Last Line: (ane uthir manis erss.) Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors SUNDAY, by JANET BERNICHON Poem Source First Line: Working double shift in the emergency room Last Line: If he will let that bird %find a way out Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses SUNRISE IN VIRGIN GORDA, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: The sea, almost slate blue, a four-masted schooner Last Line: Tacks at least ten degrees to port Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SURVIVOR, by THOMAS DORSETT Poem Source First Line: She saw on her home street Last Line: With spoonfulls of nursing-home jell-o Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians SWAN BY THE MALL, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: The swan's white bulk, crumbled like a corrugated box Last Line: Drawing itself from death's shrunken [or, sunken] belly into the room? Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Medicine; Nurses; Swans SWEET CURE, by GARDNER MCFALL Poem Source First Line: A man, with a dozen small pieces of paper Last Line: To the wall and fallen into night's dreams Subject(s): Medicine; Retail Trade TAKE CARE, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Take care, we say to one another Last Line: Of the healing serum Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TALKING TO THE FAMILY, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: My white coat waits in the corner Last Line: And replace the light bulb in the hall Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TAP, by ALICE JONES Poem Source First Line: I love to find a door. Like the spinal tap Last Line: How it comes, the brain's clear bath Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Religion; Spirituality TARAHUMARA HERBS, by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: The tarahumara indians have come down, %sign of a bad year Last Line: In heaps upon the ground-- %perfect in their natural natural science Subject(s): Botany And Botanists; Herbs; Medicine; Native Americans; Plants TCHAI AT UNCLE'S, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: A child among the chink of china Last Line: Stop the smarting. His smile remains Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TEACHER, by HILARIE JONES Poem Source First Line: I was twenty-six the first time I held Last Line: And say, let's talk about your heart Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses TEN ITEMS OR LESS, by AMY HADDAD Poem Source First Line: I can spot them %even in the checkout line Last Line: As they sort coupons %for cereal or canned tomatoes Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses TERMINAL CUISINE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Allow me to second his opting against Last Line: A bon appetit and farewell Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TERMINAL NURSE: REFLECTIONS ON NEW MILLENNIUM NURSING, by JUDY SCHAEFER Poem Source First Line: I have seen the enemy Last Line: I hear-I hear baby cries of un-napping %-session disconnected Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses TET, VIETNAM 1968, by PAULINE HEBERT Poem Source First Line: A litter dropped onto sawhorses Last Line: Audible steady drips of blood %settle on my boots Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses TETANUS SHOT, by WILLIAM DORESKI Poem Source First Line: My godson's cut finger glistens Last Line: When viewed from an open grave Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Pain TEXTBOOK CASE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man fell ill. The year of coughing passed Last Line: Disposition if not a martyr's persistence, %if nothing else the good fortune to die Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 1. AIR, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: Daughter of paeon, queen of every joy Last Line: First-born of heaven, and only less than god! Subject(s): Health; Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Medicine; Oxygen; Drugs, Prescription THE ART OF PRESERVING HEALTH: BOOK 4. THE PASSIONS, by JOHN ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: The choice of aliment, the choice of air Last Line: One power of physic, melody, and song. Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (DRUGS), by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man tried to read the small type, but it was too small. Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription THE FOX WHO WATCHED FOR THE MIDNIGHT SUN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across the snowy pastures of the estate Last Line: As if the dead hare were soon to awaken. Subject(s): Animals; Dramatists; Ibsen, Henrik (1828-1906); Medicine; Plays & Playwrights ; Trapping & Trappers; Writing & Writers; Drugs, Prescription; Dramatists; Traps; Snares; Trappers THE HEALER, by ANNE MATHILDE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: A calm-eyed wraith, sleep glides across Last Line: Before the burgeoning of day! Subject(s): Medicine; Miracles; Drugs, Prescription THE HEART IN THE JAR; MEDITATION UPON NOBEL PRIZE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alive it beats in a bosom of glass Last Line: Death and the artist grapple for the knife. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Carrel, Alexis (1873-1944); Health; Hearts; Medicine; Veins; Arteries; Drugs, Prescription THE HOSPITAL NURSE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know when I am dead?' Last Line: "and for thy love to worship thee." Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Nurses; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Illness THE MURMUR, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor flicks on a light Last Line: Red and green and indigo. Subject(s): Birth; Children; Medicine; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Drugs, Prescription; Parenthood THE NEWCASTLE APOTHECARY, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: A man, in many a country town, we know Last Line: "the singing-writer with a bastard fame." Subject(s): Medicine; Drugs, Prescription THE PILL, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pill, in the pill bottle, humming like a wheel at rest, confident ... Last Line: Could have sworn that it could see them, and that it blinked. Subject(s): Humanity; Medicine; Reason; Self-consciousness; Drugs, Prescription; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE TIMELY TOPIC, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When modern people get together, they do Last Line: Mix a drastic potion, and take it with a spoon! Subject(s): Health; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Surgery; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors; Illness THE WAITING ROOM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ladies in the waiting room of the atchley pavilion Last Line: Tropical design on sleeves) has lit a cigarette Subject(s): Medicine; Women; Drugs, Prescription THERAPY, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: You attribute my recovery Last Line: To the warmth of your hand Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians THIN MARGIN, by CAROL BATTAGLIA Poem Source First Line: The only thing %that separates us Last Line: Is that I have not %yet been diagnosed Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare oaks rock and snowcrust tumbles down Last Line: Brave woman, I hope you never saw the truck. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Medicine; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription THOUGHTS FROM AFAR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: While I raised my steaming cup Last Line: And spare my friend %his life %his mind Subject(s): Jews; Medicine THREE VOICES, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Noise %I hear air warm, a warping din Last Line: As I break end from end do you bind me in petals in tears Subject(s): Grief; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Voices TIME HEALS ALL WOUNDS -- BUT ONE, by VERNON ROWE Poem Source First Line: Let me go, doc %and I did Last Line: Let me go, doc %and I did Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TIME INTO WATER, by AMANDA SCHAFFER Poem Source First Line: If he had been born earlier, galileo Last Line: Publishing the dry weight of a patient's heart Subject(s): Galileo (1564-1642); Medicine TO DOCTOR EMPIRIC, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When men a dangerous disease did 'scape Last Line: From my disease's danger, and from thee. Variant Title(s): To Doctor Empirick Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TRANSFIGURATION, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: Underpants Last Line: Genetically programmed %errors Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TRIAGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: The frugal traveler- %I survey my belongings splayed out Last Line: I return the book to its special corner Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TRIM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Antonio twirls a sheet around my neck Last Line: Yes,' I nod, 'yes, yes, yes' Subject(s): Jews; Medicine TRIOLET, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A perfectly clear liquid like water Last Line: Last night, in the cold hospital, this is what I saw. Subject(s): Hospitals; Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors TRUCK, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: I was coming back from Last Line: Down here %as a setback Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TSAR'S DAUGHTER IN A FORENSIC LAB, by JESSICA GRANT Poem Source First Line: He's made her ordinary, spread her slim Last Line: At once for any photograph Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Medicine TWO SUFFERING MEN, by EUGENE HIRSCH Poem Source First Line: I sat across, behind my desk Last Line: Taste so damn good in the morning Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians TWO WEEKS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: A man's cough bounces down the hallway Last Line: I am here now two weeks Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians UNIVERSAL MEDICINE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man discovered the universal medicine Subject(s): Mankind; Medicine; Human Race; Drugs, Prescription UNIVERSAL MEDICINE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man discovered the universal medicine Last Line: Even more perfect galaxies Subject(s): Mankind; Medicine VACCINE, by BRUCE BOND Poem Source First Line: One more child in a silent line Last Line: Pale and hardening like a star Subject(s): Children; Medicine; Needles; Physicians VENETIAN GLASS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: The glass museum of murano is fifteen minutes Last Line: With amber and green Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians VENIPUNCTURE, by JOHN GRAHAM-POLE Poem Source First Line: In the callows of my intern year of Last Line: Tiny vessel in this gargantuan frame Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians VERMONT HAS A HIGH SUICIDE RATE, by RICHARD DONZE Poem Source First Line: At least that's Last Line: So cold %so long Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians VINCENT, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Thanksgiving he'll be there, crumpled Last Line: Filling the room with his own voice Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians VINEGAR RAG, by JUANITA BROWN TOBIN Poem Source First Line: In the face of the plague Last Line: I cracked and picked nuts Subject(s): Medicine VINTAGE, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: They said that was a special year Last Line: Before we pry the aging corks? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine VOYEUR, by DAVID MOOLTEN Poem Source First Line: A man watches a woman disrobe in a window Last Line: Impervious to all dishonors but one Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WAGES OF MERCY, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: The medics tell me he's been ten years Last Line: The telephone rings three times, then stops Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WAITING FOR SOPHOCLES, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Was there hope for peace in talk of war? Last Line: Without kissing, without saying a word Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WAITING ROOM, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ladies in the waiting room of the atchley pavilion Last Line: Tropical design on sleeves) has lit a cigarette Subject(s): Medicine; Women WAITING ROOM, by SPENCER SMITH Poem Source First Line: The woman next to me is rocking Last Line: And the gray woman pats my knee and I am cold Subject(s): Medicine; Sickness WALKING THE DOG, by JOHN+(4) WRIGHT Poem Source First Line: She weighed Last Line: Walked it faithfully %twice a day Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WATER STORY, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: I love the living sound of my plant when I water it Last Line: I carry this story on my white shoes Subject(s): Birth; Life; Medicine; Nurses; Physicians; Water WHAT I AM, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: You ask me how I know Last Line: What I am proficient at Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WHAT I HEARD ON THE RADIO TODAY, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: Horowitz debuted a schumann piece Last Line: That I heard on the radio today Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WHAT IS LOST, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: When she came across the border Last Line: Into a piece that will hold Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Politics; War WHAT MATTERS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: The nurse drifts in, checks Last Line: Hang on before we let go Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WHAT NURSES DO BEST, by MARLENE CESAR Poem Source First Line: I'm at the nursing station concentrating on what nurses do best Last Line: And yet so far Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WHAT NURSES DO ON THEIR DAY OFF, by JO-ANNE ROWLEY Poem Source First Line: A friend said %a day off is just that Last Line: I never liked her much anyway Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WHAT NURSES DO: THE MARRIAGE OF SUFFERING AND HEALING, by JEANNE BRYNER Poem Source First Line: Compared to the day I had to sit with a mother Last Line: For a long time after Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: It was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Subject(s): Physicians; Medicine; Physicians; Doctors; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors WHAT THE BODY TOLD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago, I studied medicine Last Line: I was fabulous, what the body told Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WHAT THOMAS WANTED, by THEODORE DEPPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: From the air, our meadow must have seemed the one safe place Last Line: I laughed, so he kept on: 'the balloon was like a circus without %noise' Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WHAT WAS LEFT OF SUMMER, by GERI ROSENZWEIG Poem Source First Line: With nothing in my mouth but the salt of old times Last Line: Stunned as a child's at how suddenly the story ends Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WHEN ALL THAT'S WARM, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: When all that's warm and moist is just debris Last Line: Bodies formolated, wings impaled? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine WHEN AN I.V. ENTERS, by ERIC BAUS Poem Source First Line: The bulging vein Last Line: Drifting from your optic nerve Subject(s): Medicine WHO LOOKS AFTER YOUR KIDS, by KIRSTEN EMMOTT Poem Source First Line: Who looks after your kids while you work Last Line: My senile old grandmother. The wicked witch %of the west Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians; Women WHY WE WORE WHITE, by PATRICIA MAHER Poem Source First Line: As a young girl %I watched my grandmother dress Last Line: To render light %from the dark Subject(s): Medicine; Nurses WILL CAMPBELL DISPLAYS HIS CRANIOTRIBE, by H. J. VAN PEENAN Poem Source First Line: They said I had to have it. It was an instrument Last Line: In the thirty-bed hospital here at humble pie? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WINDOW SEAT, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: Pillow-propped, secluded by a double layer Last Line: The failed premise of snow? Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WINEPRESS, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: In this day of serial monogamy Last Line: This need not make sense %to have meaning Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WINTER STRIPPING, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: After the pear, the grape, the old apple tree Last Line: The beauty of what remains Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WINTERBLOOM, by PETER PEREIRA Poem Source First Line: The knot in your breast was already Last Line: A shimmering confetti, its citrus-musk %a bitter sweet Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WORDS, by MARC J. STRAUS Poem Source First Line: A cynosure of fashion. That's Last Line: He had melena and %angiodysplasia Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians WORMWOOD, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: My father tells the story Last Line: That could have killed him Subject(s): Healing; Medicine; Sickness; Weeds WOUND MAN, by D. A. FEINFELD Poem Source First Line: Stabbed, clubbed, and slashed, I stand Last Line: Are but blood. I am granted no tears Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians X-RAY, by DANNIE ABSE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Some prowl seabeds, some hurtle to a star Last Line: But don't want to, I still don't want to know Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors YEAH, RIGHT, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: You picked a seat across from mine Last Line: This is a date I'd best refuse Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YIZKOR, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Four score, leo boasts his vigor Last Line: With not a mention of death Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YOM KIPPUR, 5760: MUSAF, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: I lean back in my seat %catch my kippah that slips Last Line: With things the way they are _ %that's a lot Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YOUR MICHAEL, by JAY ALLAN LIVESON Poem Source First Line: Your nights since then are sleepless. How could you know? Last Line: He signed and sealed his fatal farewell note? Subject(s): Jews; Medicine YOUTH, by VERNON ROWE Poem Source First Line: She glided into Last Line: And we can fix those Subject(s): Medicine; Physicians |
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