After the Waiting Room

A Poem on a Poem on a Waiting Room Couch

I wrote this article and poem below last week for my creative writing course at Columbia Narrative Medicine, and I shared it on my personal Substack because it felt empowering to me.

Today's assignment was to write a 1-10 line poem about last week's poem, and again, I feel pride in these words and want to share them.

Today, in sharing this, I feel like the poets I’ve seen perform live -

Sierra DeMulder

, Tonya Ingram, and Anis Mojgani - would feel proud of me. They’d remind me that although I’d never call myself a poet, per-se, there’s poetry in every one of us, in every moment we live, in every encounter we have.

I feel so grateful to be a student of @narrative_medicine at @columbia & to have the opportunity and encouragement to be pushed as a writer to expand not just my voice or my reach, but my belief in the words within my experiences.

I leave you with this, the abridged version of “After the Waiting Room.”