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31 Days of Pink Ribbon Poetry
Collected by Alysa Cummings
Digital images by Alysa Cummings
Affiliation: The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: May 1, 2008
In the Hospital
Patricia Goedicke
From: Her Soul Beneath the Bone, edited by Leatrice H. Lifshitz. University of Illinois Press, 1988.
When they came at me with sharp knives
I put perfume under my nose.
When they knocked me out on the
operating table
I dreamed I was flying.
When they asked me embarrassing questions
I remembered the clouds in the sky.
When they were about to drown me
I floated.
When they laid harsh hands on me
I thought of fireworks I had seen with you.
When they told me I was sick and might die
I left them and went away with you
To where I live
When they took off my right breast
I gave it to them.
Quotable Healing - Quote of the Day
Prayerlike thoughts, offered from a distance, have
been demonstrated to increase the healing rate of
surgical wounds...
— Larry Dossey, M.D.
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