disease

Pathogenesis (n.)

By Jordan Honeyblue

Fall 2022

1. sharpening the white epidermis to machete on
gum-grown whetstones belonging to inheritors
of mitochondrial Eve’s Earth-blown nakedness

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Once Bitten

By Laura Kolbe, Illustrations by Victo Ngai, Haisam Hussein

Summer 2016

Hundreds of thousands of cases of dengue fever have been reported in Puerto Rico, and yet little attention has been paid to the problem. In 2009 and 2010, the eighty-eight recorded dengue cases in Key West were the serious inducement needed to find solutions.

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The Polio Vaccine, Chatham, Virginia, 1964

By Claudia Emerson

Fall 2008

It was not death we came to fear but her life,
her other birth, waking remade from the womb

of that disease. One leg was withered, a dragging-

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Anorexic, Farmers’ Market

By Claudia Emerson

Summer 2006

All around her, we sounded melons, practiced
at hearing what we couldn’t see, pretending not
to notice when she stopped at the stall where the Amish

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