My relationship to language is an overdetermined, tangled mess: the end result of unequal parts-learning disability, educational deficiency, and self-stylized coping mechanisms. Although I write through it everyday, I’d never considered writing about it until late in the summer of 2007. The novelist Selah Saterstrom sent around an email asking friends to share a brief […]
The Love Language of Nathie Marbury: Celebrating Black Deaf Leaders
She stands proud with a smile that turns with every intentional twist of her wrists. The character at the center of her visual fairytale presentation, Sleeping Beauty is deceptively dramatic. At any given moment, Nathie Marbury offers unexpected moods and exciting delivery to children who will never forget the experience. They will not only learn […]
A Sneak Preview of Fence Issue #40 Fall 2022
An Introduction to The Fence Portfolio of Writing by Professional Nurses
Fence 39 has coalesced during the 21st century’s first pandemic, a globalinflection point — or ongoing duration — from which we must all pivot. No matter the scope of the task before us, we ask ourselves how do we do this, now? How can we do this now? And the fuzzy and foggy shape of […]
From me to others: a short reflection
I started writing a journal during the pandemic, but as deaths numbers increased, everything seemed very narcissistic. Writing about my mundane daily experiences of a nursing researcher seemed meaningless and selfish, so I stopped and focused on working on awareness and health education. I started with my family, those close to me […]
The Hospice Ogre
I won’t forget the day the boss leaned into my office doorway at the hospice and said, “They’re calling it a pandemic.” I stared at him. “We’re in a pandemic. It begins now.” We’d seen it coming; still, we looked at one another to mark our last moment of pre-pandemic innocence, the […]
“Sheltering in Place for Beginners” & “As Numbers of Dead Rise, Moths Fill the Room”
Sheltering in Place for Beginners Are you awake? You have relied on anesthesia during the scapel’s trusty removals. In the ice melt of morning sit still, read jokes. Wind predicts drought. You will grow strong in your heart’s ribbed hospital. Become the blue rising up over your bed. Wake to smell a […]
The problem was I could see it
The jammed hallways packed emergency room, the ICU. I could feel the mounting panic in the chest of the staff making it difficult to breathe. The sweat beneath their scrubs and yellow long-sleeved gowns. Their latex gloved hands, N95’d mouths plastic shielded faces. I could see the underground corridor that connected one part of the […]
Did I Deserve to Die When I Was Drunk?
When I meet Peter, he is the first patient I’ve cared for in almost a full year who is capable of smiling. During this pandemic, almost all the patients in our ICU have been so critically ill that they could not smile. They were intubated and sedated, a tube sticking out of their mouth and […]
Copy of One More Scoop: Increased Demands on Nursing During a Pandemic
Nursing is defined by providing care for the sick, further defined by Florence Nightingale as utilizing our environment to provide care for the sick to aid in their recovery. Even back in 1856, Nightingale saw the connections between environment and health, health and community, community and environment: “The health of the unity is the health […]
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