A SCIENTIST’S ADVICE ON HEALING by Christy Ducker

Try to accept this fat red hurt is your starting point, in the way a pen must be put to paper      in one particular spot, then move beyond the globby flap of blame      and past           the mono-sulk                of pain. Change the subject, before it’s too late. Sketch out what health you do possess, what signal-cascades, what flotilla of cells circumnavigate you, then draw yourself back      together again, in a language      of your own. Your body’s talk is loose as lymph — it’ll have you open out      as a tree, or sneak up on pain      as assassin,      sidekick,      or wolf. Encourage this for healing won’t come at you      straight. Embrace the lack of heroics — this isn’t Hollywood, it’s you, in a plot that may or may not resolve. Twitter：@camelliayang Website: https://www.camelliayang.com/ Join 1,000+ lifelong learner to receive a monthly newsletter from the Chiwi Journal.