How Did It Save Your Life?

Poems written after other times of great death and illness, such as the aids pandemic. They helped us bear witness to o tremendous suffering in communities that were most impacted by h i vn aids. And they spurred scientific research that led to some of the medicines that are so effective in treating the infection. Poetry me is a way of revisiting those lost moments or projecting myself imaginatively into those moments where one can still allow oneself to feel what wasn't allowed in that actual moment. It also goes back to what elegy does since the beginning of human tory, it enlivens, it brings back the lost loved one in a way that's really almost a alchemicaland