your heart has four chambers, is there room for me?
time, / its lifespan ceases to exist / as the gold warmth of your hazel eyes surround me
Tag: poetry
Pre-Medical Guest Writer
New York University
Miray is currently a third year undergraduate student attending New York University double majoring in Global Public Health and Sociology and double minoring in Chemistry and Creative writing. He has a passion for the social or cultural (in addition to the clinical or bodily) effects of medical practice, with a particularly interest in the health disparities and inequities among minorities.
Ensconced in His Throne Upon the Sea
I strode down hallways, winding ‘round to meet / A sailor old and take to him his meal. / A gentle bounce in every step on beat, / This home to many always builds my zeal.
Five Inestimable Pounds
A canvas / Of delicately oiled / Skin, stretched taut
Last and First Days
Was it a fall? Did I miss the last step? These things I cannot recall / Hidden from sight, the blood crept from one lone vessel and began to compress / Nice to meet you, one medical student said, as he unzipped my sheath
two slides
after three years go by / you appear on two slides / in a lecture / on motor neuron disease
Pupil of the Eye
The eye dilated in the physician’s dark exam room, / While into it the eyes of new white coats loom, / From this eye I am learning
Under
Little girl / in the pink hospital gown / sits in a windowless room.
Hyperammonemia
Hepatic failure claimed him mentally, / And colored yellow both his eyes so wide / As too his being stained corporally.
A Privilege to Chore
The many tables corral him, / All the people surround him, / A trained doctor he is not, / Giving up, he hasn’t thought.
Nascent Hands
First, do no harm, but to harm not I must first see / With swift breath, I begin. / You, silent teacher, my new textbook
One Step At A Time
My mind wakes up in the morning / Sweating with facts / Preparing / For the archeological dig.
A Physician Finds Himself at a Loss for Words
And whenever I see you smile / There are significant changes in my cardiology, / I love you
Contributing Writer
University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
James D. Denham is a native of Dadeville, Alabama but is currently a 3rd year medical student at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa, Florida. He received both his B.S. in microbiology and his M.S. in Biological Science from Auburn University.