Bio

Jorge E. Calderón is a retired physician currently pursuing a Liberal Arts degree. He earned a B.A in Economics from the University of Bogotá, J.T.L., a doctorate degree in Medicine and Surgery from the National University (Bogotá, Colombia), a M.P.H from Johns Hopkins University, and finished his residency in General Surgery at South Baltimore General Hospital. He has worked on public and international health in several Latin-American countries and Washington, D.C. as a consultant to the World Bank and Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO/OMS) and a Health Sciences Project financed by the Inter-American Development Bank. He was Head of the Planning Office of the Colombian Ministry of Health, General Sub-Director of the Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, Dean for Academic Affairs of the Bogotá University J.T.L and was in the practice of clinical medicine and health administration for 25 years in the Baltimore area. He is preparing the book Short Stories and Poems for Travelers, and currently lives with his wife, Yolanda, in Severn, MD. He has 3 children and three grandchildren.

I lived a dream. My cozy castle.My fairy garden. The children's ground. The guardian trees. The soothing fire.
The puppy's house. Resplendent
sun and us. Ready to conquer the World. To work. To build a fortress. Reaching stars, the
moon, the blue vault enrapture my life with trusting crowds
to be. To leave a print. To love.
to show results and
to feel proud,
serene,
calm,
yet

...

plop!
cracked,
deceived
Old New Deal
once again stolen
rampantly, barons direct us
to Cerbero's door, misled illusions to the floor;
wack nightmare, my job flies to Shanghai, mortgages to the sky. Bankers hot coldness wrecks
my cozy castle, my fairy garden, the children's ground, the guardian trees, the soothing fire, the puppy's house.
Murky sun, dark stars and us.