Voices in Humanism

Waiting to graduate, spring 2020

See the smoke over the horizon
Fires on the coast
Swaths of forests burn while
Buried, seeds soak in the new ash

Buds swell lively with leaves
Tadpoles trundling through mud
Grow new legs but
Feel their tails shrivel

Spring air clean and empty
Sunsets watched through windows
Fingertips drum on the glass

New rhythms

Allison LaRocco, MD
OSU College of Medicine, Class of 2020
Humanism in Medicine Senior Award 2020
PGY 1, University of Maryland Medical Center