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How poetry taught me to be patient with the history of others and my own
The writer, a junior doctor, discovered the healing nature of writing poetry when she had to cope with her mother’s cancer diagnosis.
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The playfulness of poetry, with its freedom of form and breadth of subject matter, felt like a game of “choose your own adventure”, says the writer.
ST ILLUSTRATION: MANUEL A FRANCISCO
Tricia Tan
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They came one after another on WhatsApp, an ugly train of images from my mother’s colonoscopy.
My feet stilled in the hospital hallway.
