Taking care of time : poems / by Cortney Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Cortney, 1945- author.

Series:

Wheelbarrow Books poetry series

Wheelbarrow books poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nursing--Poetry.

Nursing.

Nurses--Poetry.

Nurses.

Human body--Poetry.

Human body.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

73 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2018]

Contents:

I

Nursing 101 3

Selling Kisses at the Diner 4

Mornings We Rolled Pills into Fluted Cups 5

Surgical Rotation 6

The Nurse's First Autopsy 7

Apology to the Woman in Room 23 8

Stoned 10

Intubating the Corpse 12

Angel of Mercy 13

Falling Temperature 15

All Night, Lightning Flared Silently 17

Heroics 18

Teaching CPR 19

Women's Clinic 21

The Dark Marks 23

Hooked Up 24

Alchemy 26

The Circulating Nurse Enters the Operating Room 27

Waking 28

It Was a Good Year for Dreams 29

II

Becoming the Patient 32

III

The Ant's Reprieve 40

The Nurse's Pockets 41

A Patient Tells about Her Suffering 42

Diagnosis HIV 43

Follow-Up: Women's Clinic 44

Astronomy 46

I'm Afraid of the Brief Empty Space 47

Visiting the Lightning Struck 49

Distracted by Blackberries 50

On Call: Splenectomy 51

Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter 53

The Vocation of Illness 55

There Are No Poems at Hospital Management Meetings 57

Killing the Nurse in the House 58

I Want To Work in a Hospital 59

My Evidence 60

Twelve Thousand Years Ago 62

Hospice 63

Taking Care of Time 64

Finding What You Didn't Expect 65

First Night at the Cheap Hotel 67

The Snake Charmer 68

Author's Acknowledgments 69

Series Acknowledgments 72.

ISBN:

1611862744

9781611862744

OCLC:

1007927325