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Health Policy and Technology

Volume 7, Issue 3, September 2018, Pages 230-232
Health Policy and Technology

Poetry, medicine and the 2018 Hippocrates prize

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2018 FPM Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine

First Prize in the Open Category: Joanne Key

Colony

(formication: a sensation like insects crawling over the skin)

After three dry days and nights, my father

became a different man. Listen. I just need a drink,

he said, pulling me in, locking his arms

around my neck. Holding me close to his chest,

the transformation began. For the first time,

I heard the ants inside him, crossing

the bone bridges of ribs, chattering in their strange

ant language. Last in a long line of ant children,

I had come to

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