[Note: In a previous post on Fear, I mention a poem written after my second cancer experience.] “I love Paris in the summer. “I love Paris in the fall.” The song on the downward elevator sings in my ears until they ache With the sound of music other than Mozart. Thank God for Mozart. […]
Archives for April 2013
My fear of the future
I am sitting by a Zen-like creek in New Jersey (a delightful commuter trip away from Manhattan) watching an egret swimming along the water bobbing for a snack. I am at peace, but it is a strange peace. For one thing, minor ailments begin to crowd out major ones: The allergies of spring assault my […]
My personal experience with cancer—Cancer III, II, I
New York, New York, Saturday, April 13, 2013: My third cancer is new. It did not present itself as a suspicious sign the way the lump (tumor) did under my right arm leading to a diagnosis of Hodgkin’s disease followed by major surgery and two rounds of radiation treatment when I was 28 years old. […]
Who I used to be
The provinces of his body revolted,/ The squares of his mind were empty, / Silence invaded the suburbs, / The current of his feeling failed: he became his admirers. -W.H. Auden April, 2013 “Who did you used to be?” a technician asked me while drawing my blood at the Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College, PA. […]