Count Each Breath
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A health care system built on bias and inequity, a system of policing that snatches our sons & daughters from our arms, and a pandemic painting a target on our backs - this is 2020 through the eyes of a black woman with chronic illness.
If you've ever been dismissed, ignored, suspected, or accused by a healthcare provider,
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Count Each Breath - Maria James-Thiaw
Maria James-Thiaw
Count Each Breath
First published by Wild Ink Publishing LLC 2022
Copyright © 2022 by Maria James-Thiaw
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Publisher LogoOh, please. Those things come back negative for, like, seven years before they’re positive.
~ my well-meaning orthopedic surgeon.
I dedicate this collection of poetry to all the enigmas: the women who suffer from invisible ailments that take years to diagnose.
I would also like to thank those medical professionals who listen to their patients, treat us as individuals, and take time to solve problems, even when we don’t fit the textbook model.
Contents
Foreword
Dispair-ities
Locked Down
Rise up
About the Author
Also by Maria James-Thiaw
Foreword
I complete this book in the minutes before the ball drops New Year’s Eve, 2020. Tonight, New Year’s Eve is different. There are no revelers in Time Square. Those that are out, don masked faces to protect others from sickness. My family and I stay in, peering through windows as the neighbors explode huge fireworks in their backyards.
This is the year we’ve been beaten by the environment, the political climate, historic injustices, systematic inequities, and especially a deadly pandemic. I feel every blow we’ve collectively taken, but no matter how much time I have to breathe, I will breathe poetry into the world.
This collection is one tick priming a tock on the face of this disastrous pandemic. It is a time capsule, telling the future who we were. Thank you for sharing this moment with me.
Dispair-ities
Rage
The day
I thought I was dying
I decided
to carefully fold up my somedays,
keep them tucked in a trunk
in a