retrospect

myeloma: a confrontation with
self.

the body: a wise horse
clambering up a
mountainside.

ego: a general misdirecting an
army.

anxiety: the visceral volcanics of
imagined pain.

patient: who you are & how to
be in horizontal reality.

chemotherapy: the royal road to
well-being guarded by sinkholes of medically necessary misery.

margin of survival: a favorable
ratio of functional living
cells to dead cancer cells.

calendar: the fading illusion of personal intent.

suffering: the stricken heart ascends.

resolution: let go of all you
can, except life.

retrospect: high altitude; low
turbulence.