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Not Talking

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2012

Naomi R. Kogan
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Type
Poetry/Fiction: Poem
Information
Palliative & Supportive Care , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 177
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012

His face
suffers.
Making
noises,
when
in pain.
Hard
to breathe?
or
Something?
Just
read
his face.
You
have to guess
Extraordinary man.
Thirty-one years
together.
Don't know
anything
about
him.
Still has
hope.
Gonna
be cured.
That's
the problem.

Editor's Note:

This poem was derived from the transcripts of the interviews with the caregivers described in the paper in this issue: The extra burdens patients in denial impose on their family caregivers, by N. R. Kogan, M. Dumas, and R. Cohen. It is a form described as poetic transcription, in which the transcripts are condensed to their essence.