Print PageA Moment of Stillness
Frances A. Brahmi
fbrahmi@iupui.edu
Creamy beige hearse
stationed at the
hospital back door,
patchwork quilt
shrouded her body.
The gurney
rolled and bent
at the knees
collapsed into
open doors
and disappeared.
About the Author
Fran Brahmi is a poet and medical educator with an interest in both evidence-based practice and the
role of writing and literature in medicine. I teach a narrative medicine elective at the Indiana University
School of Medicine for 4th year students.Published: August 7, 2010