Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor.
murphy’s sign
yellow on the horizon
with a dark more total than
fingers moving in small steps
and smaller spaces
an ambulance is in the distance
your breathe is on my neck
what is this gall
how do you hold me
with all your living
cpr
love is squishing the
sunflowers interrupted in their morning bow
words said underneath a blanket fort
a tightness on the chest that the first dive knows
when you are eight and you have to convince the girl illuminated
by light
that you can swim the whole lake
turning over on your back when the tide wears the creation
of gods
thinking
is it the floor that is sinking
or the ceiling that is climbing
the waters splash now
though soon
they will still
with love