added by Emily Silverman, MD · updated 2y ago
COVID Dreams
The nurse was a sick-looking man with grey, translucent teeth. He sucked them, audibly, as we walked. I wondered if he’d begun working here as a healthy person and then slowly absorbed the aura of madness and death surrounding him. I wondered what I was absorbing in my line of work.
from The Smiling Man by Joseph Knox
Margaret Leigh added
The Dentist Haiku
Open wide he said
Funny noises in my head
Time stands still it seems
Terence Faircloth added
“Considering how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing, when the lights of health go down, the undiscovered countries that are then disclosed, what wastes and deserts of the soul a slight attack of influenza brings to light, what precipices and lawns sprinkled with bright flowers a little rise of tem
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