These are the Hands - by
for the 60th anniversary of the NHS
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/ These are the hands
/ That touch us first
/ Feel your head
/ Find the pulse
/ And make your bed.
/
/ These…
for the 60th anniversary of the NHS
/
/ These are the hands
/ That touch us first
/ Feel your head
/ Find the pulse
/ And make your bed.
/
/ These…
Step this way, sir. Just here you may see
/ a child’s head so full of water
/ that the world’s alarms were quite…
I would have loved you, wept
/ with your father and your mother
/ over these tiny perfect hands, perfect feet
/
/ preserved skin-free, en-pointe –
/ as…
I am looking, as you are, through Henry Wade
/ his eyes, his lens: the Rafa-Gaza road
/ aching towards a sky perhaps grey,…
A Continuity Problem
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/ 1.
/ Machines for fixing
/ machines for fixing machines
/ for fixing machines.
/
/ 2.
/ For a waiting-room,
/ it’s perfect. We don’t even
/ realise we’re there.
/
/ 3.
/ ‘I’d rather…
This is what happened
/ Someone lifted a grey translucency to the light
/ and held it there
/ seeing the knit fracture in the clavicle
/ the…
For all the eye specialists I’ve seen – in varying degrees of haziness – over the years,
/ and for the…
‘my eyes have seen what my hand did’
/ — Robert Lowell
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/ No matter what we say, we still believe
/ the soul is here,…
smaller than the eye can see the living dead
/ floating in limbo awaiting a host
/
/ we don’t discriminate we’ll invade anyone
/ occupy your secret places incubate and…
From the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery,
/ University of St Andrews
/ In the autumn of 1948 a message was received from a…
He saw, or thought he saw,
/ his skin become time’s curvature …
/ Having peeled it off, he holds it
/ up for further inspection
/ in…
‘There is at least a moderate risk that there is in your family
/ an alteration in a gene that can cause…
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