Song of My Breast

by Noralyn Masselink

$15 US
Chapbook - 29 poemsChapbooks.html

Cover Art by Endira Davis

Doxorubicin


Castel del Monte

on ruby soil

overlooking Adriatic Sea

casts its romantic mantle

thirteenth-century Italian pedigree

over liquid death

which

harms her heart

and burns her veins

and causes thrush

and turns her urine

psychedelic orange

Table of Contents


Cancer

Context is everything

Vanity

Northeast Medical Resort and Spa

Post-surgery Senryū

Nests

Two for the price of one

Saving Face and Keeping Abreast

ICD-9 Code 972.9

The Virgin Poke, central venous access

Port-A-Party

Doxorubicin

The Bald Facts

Haute Coiffure

Chemotherapy Riddle

Doxorubicin: Round Three

Why are they called “Rounds”?

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Cross Application

Blood Counts

In the time of chemo

Taxus brevifolia

Taxane Thumbscrews

Ungues

Radiation Oncology

Euphemism at its worst

Morgue Storage Shelf

Awaiting Resurrection

Song of My Breast

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