I’ve been working on a medical humanities project. Some Duluthians are part of it, including poet Zomi Bloom.

“After the endoscopy … while living in limbo, every attempt to eat led to unbearable burning and the inevitable blowing up of the balloon on my right side. I drifted in and out of waking dream‐state such that dreams became nightmares and shifted back into dreams of fantastic sweetness.”

Read the poem at repository.stcloudstate.edu.