Heavy Metal Nursing

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Heavy Metal Nursing </em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>tells a story of love which like all love stories is a story of loss. It is not a sentimental love but a heavy-metal one kneeling arm-to-arm beside parents caring for their daughter born with a severe brain injury who needs intensive care her entire life and dies at three years old.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>These poems hum the music of oxygen machines and chest compressions and respond to suffering with half howl half prayer. </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>These are poems of vulnerability and pain but also of parenting caregiving marriage medicine humor tenderness affection. Over and over they ask what it means to be learning / </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>to make life out of this slow dying.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>