Showing posts with label medical poem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medical poem. Show all posts

Sunday, March 12, 2023

They Arrive for the After-Surgery Checkup

Surgical patients come down the wide white
hospital corridor, slowly, as if moving toward
a faithful space, here to receive ceremonial

check-ups. Walking or rolling, they hold
their bodies carefully like sacred jars.
They and their companions rarely talk.

The minds that live in sawed and
cut and stitched bodies
move now, live now, in devout caution.

hans ostrom 2021