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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2023

Emerson Lee Open the ORCID record for Emerson Lee [Opens in a new window]
Emerson Lee*
Affiliation:
Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
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Author for correspondence: Emerson Lee, Department of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 733 N Broadway, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA. Email: [email protected]
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Poetry
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 21 , Issue 6 , December 2023 , pp. 1100
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Copyright
© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.

cappuccino hugs
a chicory kiss
a dance of sugar, powdered
resplendent
upon beignets
and fingers,
invariably

dreaming
of home, when times
were different
when days were warmer,
comforting,
more full of life
dreaming

of a time
before talk of a
surgery,
a tube,
came to light.

before
hunger, the painful gnaw
rumble, gurgle, grumble, grr
an onomatopoetic chorus
her only lullaby

before awakening now
in this cold room
bland
and bleak
hungry,
like the day before

Conflicts of interest

The author declares none.