This poem is included in the digital library as part of a partnership between the OHSU Library and the Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative to share Narrative Medicine curriculum and the items used in those teaching sessions. For additional information about how the poem is used in teaching and a community driven context, please visit Accessible Narrative Medicine website.

The poet, Aracelis Girmay, was born and raised in Santa Ana, California. After graduating from Connecticut College in 1999 with a BA, she continued on to New York University to obtain an MFA in poetry. Her poetry explores the relationships between loss and change. (Source: poets.org)

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