On Presence
Three poems that ask you to stop, look, and be where you are.
Begin this pathLibrary
Reading Paths
Guided ways into the Library, organized around recurring capacities in doctoring.
Not every poem in the Library is explicitly about medicine. Reading Paths help show how poems about weather, time, difficulty, joy, loss, form, and attention can still speak to the craft of doctoring. Each path begins with a human question and gathers poems that sharpen one way of seeing.
Begin with the question that feels most alive
You do not need to read these paths in order. Choose the path that matches your curiosity, your teaching needs, or the question you are carrying. Some readers arrive through medicine. Others arrive through poetry. The paths are designed to welcome both.
On Resilience
From falling to rising — a three-poem arc of recovery.
Begin this pathOn Wonder
Three poems that find the extraordinary in the ordinary.
Begin this pathOn the Unknown
Three poems for when the path ahead is unclear.
Begin this pathOn Persistence
Brick by brick, inch by inch — the long game.
Begin this pathOn Nature
Three poems that listen to what the natural world has to say.
Begin this pathOn Delight
Three poems that celebrate the small, sweet things.
Begin this pathOn Renewal
After the fall, the bloom. Three poems on beginning again.
Begin this pathReading as practice
These paths are invitations to read with greater deliberateness. Over time, they can help make the Library feel less like a collection of separate works and more like an unfolding conversation about doctoring.