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Poetry in the Operating Room

A reader reports reciting Levertov’s “Avowal” to his operating team before having a pacemaker installed.

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And on Her Stomach Was a Scar!

When my wife shows me her scars yesterday from a successful gall bladder operation, I was wafted by to one of my favorite childhood stories: Ludwig Bemelmans’s “Madeline.”

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