Sarah Cheema
TCU and UNTHSC School of Medicine
“Can you hear me?”
A strange new greeting
as my peers gather around
silent, watching.
“Can you see this?”
A tiny arrow lingers
over a minuscule artery.
I try to imagine where that might fit
in my brain.
“Follow my finger.”
I watch her eyes,
thousands of miles away,
hoping to catch any deviation.
How odd, as I play doctor
learning to heal
that which we cannot
see, hear, or touch.
Or perhaps, it is fitting.