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Snapshot Poetry #4—Childhoods Cushioned With Green
A quick snapshot poem this week: It’s not often these days that I get to take my children to a park, or to the beach, or to anywhere with wide open spaces close to nature. Their days are so heavily scheduled:...![Snapshot Poetry #3—My Father’s Hands](https://i0.wp.com/louiseallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Dads-Hands-e1406470350444.png?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Snapshot Poetry #3—My Father’s Hands
These hands held mine each Sunday night and clipped my nails, while I wriggled and watched the clippings fall like sawdust into the crease of the newspaper. As broad as the spades they pushed through the dirt, they hammered and sawed, patched...![Snapshot Poetry #2—Privileged Moments](https://i0.wp.com/louiseallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen.jpg?resize=800%2C646&ssl=1)
Snapshot Poetry #2—Privileged Moments
I’ve used the word privilege before when talking about being a doctor, because there are many privileges afforded the medical profession. Doctors share people’s lives in a way few other professions do. We witness intimate and private moments normally...![Snapshot Poetry #1](https://i0.wp.com/louiseallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/WEEKENDPOEM-e1405734042107.png?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)
Snapshot Poetry #1
I thought I’d start a creative diversion—some poetry. I do not consider myself a poet by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes phrases come to me, such as this one yesterday while I was out walking the dogs. I thought I’d try to catch these...![Photos of spring …](https://i0.wp.com/louiseallan.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/DSC_8163.jpg?resize=1080%2C675&ssl=1)