MSM POEMS
Year : 2007 | Volume
: 5
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Doctor At Work, Late Evening |
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Cortney Davis
PO Box 678, Redding, CT 06896-0678
Correspondence Address: Cortney Davis PO Box 678, Redding, CT 06896-0678
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
PMID: 22058635 
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Everyone has gone home but you and the janitor. The nurses have driven away, fluttering across the parking lot like white confetti.
Sparrows sing themselves to sleep and even the hospital longs to dream. You read X-rays in the view box glow, your patients' names marked in black, their lungs surprised in full inhale, hearts stopped mid-pump, strangers who keep you company as you scan for ribs cracked like barrel staves, for emphysema's burst balloon, for pinpoint tumours light years away, only beginning to burn.
The janitor knocks.
You close the light, wishing each patient safe, every diagnosis exact. Outside, stars ignite, like cancers inflaming the sky.
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