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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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