Those voluble cells which
lay softly atop the glass slide
compose the truth, compose the
cabalistic dialect of you and I
as the sequined stars compose
the entropic evening sky.
Stained pretty in pink and blue,
This malignancy is as pregnant
as a pause with secrets: Tangling
tau within gossamer threads of memory, breeding
butterfly gliomas within brain parenchyma, stirring
fresh, hopeful roots
with rosetting rain.
There is something cautious, yet bold
about living in a vessel as intensely fragile
as the hands of mist:
A brave thing, isn’t it?
To dare to love
What science has kissed?
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Contributing Writer
Emory University School of Medicine
John is a third-year medical student at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, GA class of 2022. In 2017, he graduated from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Science in microbiology. He enjoys playing soccer, going on runs around town, and reading/writing poems in his free time. After graduating medical school, John would like to pursue a career in either neuropathology or emergency medicine.
