Kacper Niburski is a medical student in the Class of 2021 at McGill University. He is also the CMAJ student humanities blog editor. Follow his writing instagram: @_kenkan.
ventricular septal defect
you would not understand
what it means to fall in love
with the blue
to come to pour it
to read it in the cracks of light under heavy spines
to see it in green marseille waters
that occasionally hold a date
from a night that is small and silent
after basking in wine and hearty laughter
only to end at an audacious ocean of black
with spit in your drying throat
until it is launched atop of the lip of a wave
to challenge the ocean to stay still
or at least
to pull her goodbye a little closer
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overriding aorta
when we were we
we used to swim
in a big pond
that only we knew about
behind a bush
down the road where
there’s that huge house
where no one lives anymore
but everyone passes by
on the way to the way
missing the big pond because
there’s a bush that hides
we
when we were we
swimming and leaving
bits of us to
drown away