Writing

Response to “Gross Anatomy”

I couldn’t understand. How could I understand? I couldn’t let myself understand… For fear that if I let myself understand,

The derecho knocked out your power for at least 24 hours Your loved ones watched you receive your white coat

Build yourself, do not erase it, the instructor says when she talks about beliefs, that a client’s or patient’s will

Out of place and in fear of showing who I am I am the disgraced Moor who killed the lamb

This year, the University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine celebrated 150 years of excellence

No one understands what I mean when I say I cried the day I saw your hands I thought I’d

I’ve acquired a condition not spread by microbes nor kin. I feel it spread through my bones and burn into

Dr. Justin Sipla teaches neuroanatomy and neuroscience to medical and graduate students at the University of Iowa. We asked him

Forcing myself out of bed at 10:30amand pouring a cup of coffeeour kitchen windows frosted over fromthe bitter November air.I

Poem by Zain Mehdi, Illustration by Sahaana Arumugam