Not just a pastime, to me

An invigorating swing

of medical English.

Wrapped around

the humanity of

William Carlos Williams

and Cicely Saunders.

 

Tailing with high gratitude…

and silver lamps of light…

always helping…for no reward.

Yet…alone

how lonely I feel

in the battlefield here.

 

But new writes spark,

old echoes

from days on the hospital wards

of Manchester.

Drop-dead rains of patient care,

here come the part

a poignant character study…