Health

On the place of poetry in a life that won't wait for you to heal.

By Lisa Rosenberg. "We think the heavens should be friendlier / because our hands are full."

By Lynne Ellis. "There was a sea inside/ our blood, its salt changed as our days accumulated."

By Sarah Dickenson Snyder. Searching for color in a masked world.

By Gautami Govindrajan. We grieve what we can remember.

By Terri Drake. The pandemic shifts the very trajectory of grief.

By Stephanie Kendrick. Nurses, like nuns, bless it as soon as it was carried.

By Johnson Cheu. The best way to go is in your sleep. Few get that.

By Andy Posner. “Billionaires have added about $1 trillion to their total net worth since the pandemic began.”

By Terri Kirby Erickson. Stargazing, like death, clarifies our place in the universe.