Intima Archives | POETRY G-L by title
The Ghost of You | Rosie Garland | FALL 2013
A friendship lasts, to the finish line and beyond.
The Good Thing About Almost Dying | Steven Lewis | FALL 2020
Think positively: After facing the grip of a deadly virus, one takes in the world in a different way.
Glioblastoma | Carrie Gilman | SPRING 2017
What is seen by those afflicted isn't easily discussed or understood by others.
Granny Must Grieve | Suzanne Crowe | FALL 2018
The memory of a tragedy lingers in the knitting of tiny hats.
Grief Is But A Ghoulish Thing That Occupies The Spaces We Can't Fill | Maeliss Gelas | FALL 2022
Haunting thoughts that follow after death touches the unborn.
GSW Abdomen | Evan Geller | FALL 2018
A searing contemplation of a wound
The Gurney | Lorri Danzig | FALL 2012
A hospital trip and a journey of illness marked by questioning, pain, and empathy.
Haematein – after John Ashbery’s ‘Some Trees’ | Jena Martin | FALL 2022
An ode to the unity of people, trees and viewing cells under a microscope.
Haglund’s Deformity | Elizabeth Lanphier | SPRING 2020
A portrait of an aging body, the finite connecting to the infinite.
Hands | Clare Constance | FALL 2014
Reynaud's syndrome doesn't halt the work of a compassionate caregiver.
Hands | Katherine White | SPRING 2022
Baby talk of the finest order: A neonatologist recalls moments of birth and ‘waves of healing energy.’
Hands | Kirsten Myers | FALL 2020
What is lost in a time with no touch?
The Handkerchief | Paul Taylor McCartney | FALL 2018
The connections between moments of joy and grief are held in a piece of fabric.
Heal | Rhiannon Weber | SPRING 2020
Sometimes the act of getting better involves forgetting and forgiving a lot.
Healing Hands | John C. Berens | SPRING 2014
Sometimes a patient sees what a doctor himself cannot see.
Heart Transplant | Schneider Rancy | SPRING 2017
In the space between illness and wellness, the body still yearns to be acknowledged.
Here, ellipses | Suzanne Edison | FALL 2020
Snapshots of life held in abeyance.
Heirloom | Usman Hameedi | FALL 2019
A scientist considers his family’s inheritance of illness.
Help | Aprotim Cory Bhowmik | SPRING 2024
What will it take to believe a Black woman’s pain?
Home Visit | Katie McNiel | SPRING 2020
There is dignity in knowing your limitations, in sickness or in health.
Homing Signals | Sophia Wilson | FALL 2020
Even in overwhelming darkness, we lead each other to safety.
Hospital Baby | Anne Merritt | SPRING 2017
A single precious moment in time can reveal multitudes.
The Hospital Room of Understanding | Hope Atlas | FALL 2019
A vivid moment of connection in caretaking.
How the Emergency Shift Will Go | Yara Abou-Hamde | FALL 2020
In the face of constant tragedy, which ones haunt us the most?
I Ask My Friend How She Feels: Her Response | Simona Carini | SPRING 2020
An illness narrative can come in many forms: a comment, a look, a poem. What’s important is to ask.
Ictus | Ogundare Tope | SPRING 2017
The road back from a trauma can begin by taking the smallest of steps.
I Don't Feel the Same Anymore | Jonathan Meyer | FALL 2012
As a woman grapples with how illness has changed her body, her view of the world and herself changes too
I Dream a Cat | Jane Newkirk | SPRING 2022
Melancholy and longing for a quiet day in the sun thread the thoughts of a breathless patient.
I Kiss You | Tom Whayne | FALL 2013
Illness creates its own kind of intimacy between loved ones.
I Watch Your Brain and Hope For Gray | Julia Gasior | SPRING 2023
Each diagnostic test holds a surprise ending.
In Conversation with Milosz's “Ars Poetica?” | Ellen Goldsmith | SPRING 2022
Through the discussion of poetry, different “selves” of illness are explored, along with the desire to inhabit other “more spacious” forms.
Infans Infinitas | Molly Fessler | FALL 2021
The power of the infinite is explored through genetics, an infant, loss, and the world.
Internet Dating for Centenarians | Sarah Smith | FALL 2021
Confidence and “old lady swagger” are employed in search of a boyfriend.
In the Botanical Garden at Golden Gate Park | Leatha Kendrick | FALL 2013
Confronting mortality—especially a loved one's—comes at unexpected times.
Indigo | Susan Sample | SPRING 2014
A contemplation of the rhythm of water, treatment, and the memory of a father.
Infectious | Doug Hester | FALL 2014
A change in the season brings its own form of light and enlightenment to our lives.
I No Longer Have a Favorite Color | Ellen Goldsmith | SPRING 2021
Illness transforms our vision of nature’s simplest offerings.
Intensive Care | Kristen Camitta Zimet | FALL 2013
Every day takes flight in its own way when confronting illness.
The Interpretation | Elle Silver | SPRING 2015
What do we learn from the test data? Much is revealed in the subjectivity of a diagnosis.
In That Regard | Cassia Tremblay | FALL 2020
A cognitive test reveals a different interpretation of what constitutes self.
In The Shadow of Wings | Megan Maier | SPRING 2017
Trying not to listen to what you cannot hear.
In the 70's | Nancy Smith | FALL 2022
And the beat goes on: Remembering the way doctors treated a heart attack.
Intro to Physicianship | Lala Tanmoy Das | FALL 2017
A new physician undergoes the hardest test of the field.
In Vivo | Manisha Bharadia | SPRING 2021
Expectations often lead to misplaced assumptions—about caring for a patient, a lover, a passerby …. anyone.
I Picture You Here, But You're There | Delilah Leibowitz | SPRING 2020
Everything changes when someone is gone, even in dreams.
It Was a Time | Xanthia Tucker | SPRING 2021
Surprises—mostly delightful—came to light during a challenging year.
It Was The Second Patient of The Day | Cortney Davis | FALL 2018
Daily musings: Seeing the people one cares about in the people one cares for
I Was Satisfied With Silence | Mikki Aronoff | FALL 2017
Living away from the death of silence
John Forbes Nash. Jr. | Eleanor Levine | FALL 2014
When a beautiful mind meets an ugly illness, brilliance and chaos ensue.
Just in Case | Dylan Debelis | FALL 2017
Grief appears in both the obvious and inconspicuous occurrences after death.
Kübler-Ross | Schneider K. Rancy | FALL 2018
Death and dying: A vivid reimagining of Kubler-Ross’ traditional five stages of grief.
Lamentations of Cancer | Janell Ball | FALL 2012
A poem about a daughter's experience of her mother's brain cancer and the ongoing battle her family faced.
Last Breath 9-22-20 | Mark Hammerschick | FALL 2020
“Life to life, breath to breath…”
Last Summer | Susannah Lujan-Bear | SPRING 2023
A final bow to an endless season.
Late Night | Ariel Boswell | SPRING 2020
After hours on the hospital floor, another kind of attentiveness takes over.
Leap Day | Carolyn Oliver | SPRING 2017
Goodbye, over Facetime. Call ended.
Leave My Soul Alone! | Jack Coulehan | FALL 2021
Different probes, both surgical and intangible, are explored in the attempt to achieve a seemingly impossible connection.
Learning Pronunciation | Lauren Fields | FALL 2019
Pronouncing a patient dead makes his provider wonder about learning to say goodbye.
Letter to a 93-year-old Cadaver | Jennifer Stella | SPRING 2014
Revelations about dissection from a doctor who chooses not to distance herself from it.
Life After Prednisone | Larry Oakner | FALL 2017
Once treatment is provided, the smoke clears.
Limbless | Marilyn Arenas | FALL 2013
A nurse recalls the long painful process that ultimately results in a profound loss.
Line of Beauty | Arlene Weiner | SPRING 2015
Aesthetics of a surgical procedure: what doctors and patients see is often different.
The List | Thomas Mampalam | FALL 2019
A surgeon’s morning rituals invite a moment of reflection.
Listen to the Ocean | Ron Lands | SPRING 2018
The cadence of breaths and waves eases a transition.
The Lock | Greg Stidham
Witnessing the end of a loved one is remembered in the smallest gestures.
Love Compounded | Mary Oak | SPRING 2016
How cancer spreads with terror everywhere, yet those who experience it are one of many.
Lyric Appendage at the Dali Museum | Woods Nash | SPRING 2022
While waiting for a friend’s funeral to begin, a eulogist discovers a visual landscape like the landscape of grief.