Author: Joan Ashcraft

Joan Ashcraft Joan Ashcraft (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Medical College of Wisconsin


I am a 27-year-old female Class of 2015 medical student with a history of Anthropology, French, and Religion degrees and a particular predilection for the outdoors who presents with acute poetry syndrome and a burning desire to match in obstetrics and gynecology.




autumn autopsy

as I walk away from your linoleum tomb I run my tongue over cracked lips for the first time and they are no longer attached but hanging like you were and will always be suspended from cold mental concrete waiting for warm hands to pull you down and then pull you apart before your body bursts into a thousand crisp autumn leaves and the wind scoops you up scatters beautiful bright sun droplets over your …

Joan Ashcraft Joan Ashcraft (1 Posts)

Contributing Writer Emeritus

Medical College of Wisconsin


I am a 27-year-old female Class of 2015 medical student with a history of Anthropology, French, and Religion degrees and a particular predilection for the outdoors who presents with acute poetry syndrome and a burning desire to match in obstetrics and gynecology.