摘要:Writing is, for many of us, a way to process what we experience, both our medical careers and other aspects of our lives. Sometimes we are bearing witness, sometimes we are in the thick of it. While we were preparing for a local reading of our work, Dr Zinkand and I were sharing our poetry, and discovered that we had each written a poem in response to the death of a beloved colleague several years previously. Upon further discussion, we realized we’d written these poems nearly simultaneously. Each poem has its own viewpoint, each can stand alone, but they are, we believe, symbiotic, and so we choose to publish them together.