Poetry

Let’s Pretend Everything Will Be Fine

Baby Jessica Is Still in the Well

The American Dream 2.0

An Ode to the “Smoking” Gazebo at My Inpatient Eating Disorders Clinic

CNN Films Presents Sole Survivor (2013)…Or, It’s Called Survivor’s Guilt and It Never Goes Away

Oh, to Be Gwen Verdon in a Towel in a Cole Porter Show…

An Extra Dose of Benadryl Never Hurt Anyone, and Other Stellar Parenting Advice

This Poem Isn’t Going to Solve the Middle East Peace Crisis

Quiet Desperation – after Thoreau

Through the Park

Our Love, at the End of the World – after Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Bacchanal

Delayed Gratification

On Writing an Obituary While Listening to My Christian Sister and My Jewish Husband Argue About the Speed at Which My Dead Mother Is Being Laid to Rest

She Gave Me Her Last Diet Coke (1/2-way down page)

Your Hands

Never Underestimate the Power of Recessive Genes

I Really Miss the Hillary Step

Frigid

You Hesitate, You Die

Sorry, My Thalassophobia Hurts Today

I Never Dream about Dinosaurs

Cuteness Aggression Is Most Definitely a THING (scroll halfway down page)

The Toy Room

Highlights from the Conversation with Jolene

You’re Not Allowed to Build Pillow Forts in Eating Disorder Rehab

My Right-Hand Man – after Lin-Manuel Miranda

An Elegy Concerning Bokonon and the Ecstasy of Mud – after Kurt Vonnegut

En Pointe

When You’ve Lost Your Kumar and Your White Castle Is Closed

Welcome! You Are Now Entering Maryland

JAWN

To the Med School Student Whose Anatomy-Class Cadaver is My Best Friend

Your Requiem Is on My Playlist

Shooting Stars Lose Their Meaning When You’re Dead

I Blame George Balanchine

I’m Not a F*cking Superhero Just for Raising My Autistic Son

In Heaven, the Diet Coke Never Goes Flat

What Do Spiders Dream About?

The Crick in My Neck from the Weight on My Mind

Do Not Watch The Handmaid’s Tale, and Other Advice for Expectant Mothers

A Rhyming Romp with Nietzsche

One Must Imagine Hippocrates Happy

Jessie Spano Is So Excited

On Bonded Pairs…Or, the Vonnegutian Duprass

English for Cigarettes

Jan Brady Syndrome Is a THING, and Also, No One Likes Me

I Don’t Know How to Feed My Children

My Dead Schoolmate Lent Me that Book

Penn Medicine Would Like Your Feedback

Billy Nair’s on the Moon

I Live Next Door to a Convent

My Coulrophobia Comes at Night

Down to the Filter

SINNER

Live from the Octavia E. Butler Landing Site

Recovery a la mode

The Fall of Aleppo

Reflections on the New Patient Handbook at My Eating Disorders Clinic

ENTROPY

Purple – after Mary Ruefle

Spiders

EPIGENETICS

USA Gymnastics

Keep Calm and Carry Naloxone

Things to Say to Your Husband After His Cancer Comes Back

TODAY

Michael White. Sean Schellenger. Two Families Shattered, a City Divided. Larry Krasner, D.A.

Pikuach Nefesh

The Loneliest Funeral Procession

On My Baby and the Passage of Time

RELAPSE

My Body Is a Coffin for Dead Children, and Other Things: For Kelly