the Poetry Foundation website<\/a>\u00a0about chaplaincy and poetry. She\u2019d already heard about it from another hospital chaplain.<\/p>\nOur nurse leader chimed in. \u201cI love that site,\u201d he said. \u201cI get their poem of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then the injured person showed up. We stopped chatting and went to work, inspired by our unexpected connection in poetry, which is definitely not dead.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Elizabeth Dreesen<\/p>\n
Chapel Hill, NC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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