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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