Tag: caregiving
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Scarred Body Valentine
Scarred Body Valentine emerged from the aftermath of a surgical trauma that reshaped both my body and my marriage. I wanted to write a poem that refused sentimentality and instead honored the raw, procedural reality of healing—where love is not a balm but a shared endurance. The poem is structured as a medical descent into…
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Sundance 2026: “A Door Opens in the Heat: Take Me Home and the Shape of a New Beginning”
Take Me Home follows Anna, a Korean adoptee caring for her aging parents, as a Florida heat wave reshapes her life. Ali Ahn leads Liz Sargent’s tender, imaginative film with grace and emotional clarity.
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Familiar Touch: A tactile portrayal of Alzheimer’s, anchored by Kathleen Chalfant’s quietly devastating performance.
Sarah Friedland’s “Familiar Touch,” starring Kathleen Chalfant, offers a lyrical and unsentimental portrait of Alzheimer’s, where identity flickers through gesture, and care becomes a quiet act of preservation.
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I Had To Stop Writing My Poem
I had to stop writing my poem to do more important things.The washing machine buzzed—whining again for someoneto shift the wet clothesto the dryer.An hour later, midwaythrough the third stanzaof the love poem to my wife,the dryer complained— there’s a load now dry, waiting to be folded.I dug the mix out: half hers, half mine—mostly…