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Pregnancy and Childbirth
The Green Woman
A hush fell between us now that almost had a thickness to it. It was like the moment when you drop a stone down a well and wait for the sound of its striking.
December 1983The Pregnancy Scare
She missed her period, her breasts grew tender / and for a week she was a guest in her own womb. / Alone, she felt a presence around her / inside, a larval dream.
July 1983Selected Stories
She grew up and retreated into a tower, where she lived for 20 years. No one understood this. Her friends thought perhaps she’d gone mad. When she emerged, she could fly. Everyone was very impressed, watching her fly over the sea.
April 1983Death Of A Loved One
Giving the eulogy, being followed by a chicken, losing a child
May 1981Doctors As Equals: Beyond The Medical Mystique
An Interview With Dan Domizio
It would be so nice if we didn’t have societal inertia, history, intransigence to deal with, but that’s a dream. We’ve got a system that was primitive, evolved to an enormously sophisticated set-up and is now riding on the myths and images and reputations of the past medical tradition. We need to recognize it, understand why it is what it is, and then step by evolutionary step take it apart and put it where it needs to be.
March 1981How I See God
As a combination of an elderly Abraham Lincoln and Uncle Sam; through the hole in my throat; through an innocent, crucified victim hanging on a tree
February 1981Family Stories
Waiting for the angels, chopping the head off a chicken, building a house — twice
June 1979
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