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Alchemizing Chaos: A Dance with Mortality

Alchemizing Chaos: A Dance with Mortality

there's an allure to witnessing an unraveling...

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I subconsciously wrote this free verse poem while staring at a hospital ceiling with an IV in each arm, wondering if I’d be able to see tomorrow. I questioned my mortality as I glanced at my husband, who had fallen asleep sitting in a chair with his head on the hospital bed.

While laying there quietly with the soft beeping of the hospital machines in the…

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