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A Sestina in Honor of Tia Forsman’s “Remnant” by Lynn Lawrence

August 30, 2024 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

© Remnant 2 by Tia Forsman Spring 2022 Intima

“Radiographs serve as distilled moments of a human narrative,
An illness experience in greyscale”
(From “Remnant” by Tia Forsman in the Spring 2022 Intima)

Sea glass/cutglass/eyeglass/stonefish/boomerang, Forsman’s remnants
Arrayed/x-rayed on the nightblack ocean floor of shapes and shadows.
From the French : to “rest”; to “remain”, “left over”; an underwater x-ray.
Overlapping, edges blurred, tenderly floating in an uncertain narrative.
This isn’t an x-ray. It just looks like one. Like medicine, a “grey area”
Forman is bilingual.. She paints in watercolor. She speaks in radiology.

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In Caregivers, cancer, death and dying, daughters, emergency room healthcare, fathers, graphic medicine, illness narratives Tags X-rays, radiology, radiologist, colon cancer, diverticulosis, biopsy
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When Life Changes in a Moment: A Response to “A Mother’s Life” by poet Emily Kerlin

February 17, 2020 Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine

An operative disaster affects both the surgeon and the patient.

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In narrative medicine, poetry Tags poetry, illness narratives, liver, radiologist

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