Nurses

Nursing Internship, LA County, 1990

Rattle / August 27, 2008

As the cancer patients died you smoked Another cigarette down by the dormitory pool, arm Dangling in the airless heat. […]

Rattle / August 9, 2008

It’s amazing where my mind goes as I stand above gurneys. One time a large Mylar balloon. One time arterial

Rattle / August 8, 2008

It’s the Day of the Dead. I send out invitations, set extra places at the table. Guests arrive. Everyone is

Rattle / August 7, 2008

First of all, I have to confess right off that I never wanted to be a nurse. When other ten-year-old

Rattle / July 24, 2008

…I resign’d myself To sit by the wounded and sooth them, or silently watch the dead… I dress the perforated

Rattle / July 20, 2008

She’s sick but determined to celebrate my coming for the second round of chemo. She stuffs her bra with shoulder