Mark Arvid White

In the Hospital

Nine
days
in the
hospital,
you learn about things:
CAT scans, EKGs, catheters;
you learn the inestimable value of nurses;
that tape hurts more than needles, and
people who live with
glass kidneys
shouldn't
grow
stones.

Bio

Mark Arvid White lives in Alaska, and has been writing poetry and stories for a number of years. He is devoted to haiku and other Japanese forms, but also loves to write in many other non-Eastern styles, including Fibonacci. His publication credits include such print and online journals as Modern Haiku, Frogpond, Candelabrum, Permafrost, Japanophile, Wild Violet, AlienSkin, and many others in the U.S. and abroad. He has received best of issue awards, appeared in numerous anthologies including A Haiku Moment, and has won various contest awards. He is the founder of the Shin Tao Haiku Retreat, a gathering place for poets online in the virtual community of Second Life.

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