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Cancer Villanelle - by Tracey S. Rosenberg

{ Poem }

Needles plunge. Consultants come and go.
Today, leukocytes are easy to locate;
tomorrow, next year, they may sink below.

To My Surgeon - by Valerie Gillies

{ Poem }

No-one else sees me
drowning in the white wave
sprinkled with a terrible salt

Second Opinion - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

We went to Leeds for a second opinion.
/ After her name was called,
/ I waited among the apparently well
/ And those with bandaged…

Teddy - by Glenn Colquhoun

{ Poem }

for a child with leukaemia
/
/ Teddy was not well.
/ Teddy had been feeling sick.
/ Teddy had to go to hospital.
/ Teddy was told that…

Voluntary Redundancy - by Christine De Luca

{ Poem }

‘There is at least a moderate risk that there is in your family
/ an alteration in a gene that can cause…

To My Surgeon - by Valerie Gillies

{ Poem }

No-one else sees me
/ drowning in the white wave
/ sprinkled with a terrible salt
/
/ invasive lobular carcinoma
/ is difficult to identify
/
/ but you take one…

In Surgeons’ Hall, Edinburgh - by Robert Crawford

{ Poem }

Eyeing an African carved leaning tower
/ Of people holding one another up
/ For dear life, childishly I bless that stranger
/
/ Who in a…

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