3	I entered the room, naked by Nancy Louise Peterson	16	Prostate Cancer as a Sporting Event by Ric Masten
4	it's never been too late by Nancy Louise Peterson	18	"Poor Devil!" by Ric Masten
6	Farewell to Hair by Terri Hanson	20	Finding God at Montefiore Hospital by Lorraine Ryan
8	There is a river running in the blood of him by James McGrath	21	It seems we can live with cancer now by Bonnie Maurer
10	suddenly, life changes by tommie ortega	22	The Answer by Bonnie Maurer
11	before and after by tommie ortega	24	Bi Bye-Bye, Buy by Mary Milton
12	A Woman Argues with the Casting Director by Kathleen A. Rogers	26	The Cancer Patient Talks Back by Molly Redmond
14	the good doctors by Ruthann Robson

28	Because a world may be called into being by Gary Young	40	Oncology in Advent by Bonnie Thurston
29	A Man Learning Women by David Zeiger	42	Impotence by Harvey Overton
32	Letters Received by Denise Larrabee	43	Variations on My Room in the Bone Marrow Unit: In the Room of Cows by Julie Moulds
34	When I inherit the star by Lauren E. Alexanderson	21	It seems we can live with cancer now by Bonnie Maurer
36	Reminiscence by Ruth Molly James	44	One Hundred and Ten Days by Julie Moulds
37	The Spy by Marlene Rosen Fine	46	Midnight in the Pretty Little House by Greg Keith
38	The Breast by Marlene Rosen Fine	47	First Summer by Joan Annsfire

50	When I had cancer I thought by Mark Sheffield Brown	58	Diamonds by Marcia Renee Goodman
52	There's not a book on how to do this by Sharon Doyle	60	Bay Bridge/Rosh Chodesh by Dori Ehrlich
54	How to Stay Alive by Judith Strasser	62	How Will Death Arrive? by Mildred Erickson Buzenberg
56	Reconstruction by Lisa Katz

65	Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit by John Rybicki	76	A Walk at Dusk by Jere Truer
66	Outside the Bone Marrow Unit by John Rybicki	77	Numb by Florence Weinberger
69	Diagnosis by Natalie Olsen	78	Absence of Place by Rev. Charles Brackbill
70	Guienea Pig by Julie Cadwallader-Staub	80	Nephrostomy Tube Surgery at Age Thirty-Four by Karin B. Miller
72	This Month by Julie Cadwallader-Staub	81	Greek by Karin B. Miller
74	Slow Dancing at the Med-Inn by F. Richard Thomas	82	Odds by Jane Eaton Hamilton
76	Chores by Perie Longo	83	A Lesson by Judy Rohm

84	Chocolates by Marjorie Woodbury	94	Valentine's Day, 1975 by Patricia A. Joslin
86	The Seven Sorrows by Nancy Madison Fitzgerald	96	Richard Leaving by Ann Sanfedele
89	March 29, 1985 by Nancy Madison Fitzgerald	98	Mourning Doves by Rebecca Wee
90	Survival Diptych by David Graham	99	Widow by Rebecca Wee
92	Elegy by Tad Richards	102	The cancerous cell by James Doyle

107	song by Kevin Smith	117	mother, I am feeling myself slip by Luissa Joy Chekowsky
108	She's All Right by Darci D. Schummer	120	Big Sale Today by Carol Kapaun Ratchenski
109	Cigarettes by Suzanne Frischkorn	122	Ready or Not by David Sten Harrstrom
110	Poem of the Week by Veneta Masson	124	After the Diagnosis by Carolyn Hall
112	Not Listening by Virginia Chase Sutton	126	Lucky by Tony Gloeggler
114	I Will Breathe and Breath by Jeanne Bryner	128	Palm Sunday by Charles Oberkehr
116	History by Vera Kroms	130	Five-Year Anniversary by Kymberly Stark Williams

131	A Mother's Despair by Mary H. Amundsen	146	Let Us Now Praise by Judith McCombs
132	Shape Shifter by Scott Wiggerman	148	Practicing My Goodbye after He's Gone by Jeffery L. Stangl
134	A Fantasy (Thirty Years Later) by Mary Gorder	150	In Cold Dreams before Dawn by Muriel Fish
136	Self-Examination by Clinton B. Campbell	152	An Explanation to My Dying Daughter by Francie Freeman
138	In the Mirror by John Grey	153	Courage by Francie Freeman
139	Mother Eulogy by Shannon Sexton	154	Yahrzeit by Dr. Bonnie Salomon
142	Adagio for Ginny by Karen Leahy	156	Windstorm by Larry Schug

157	A Mother and a Daughter by Elizabeth Ann Johnson	168	Again, July by Kathleen Large
158	Red by Elizabeth Ann Johnson	170	One Last Favor by Marilyn L. Taylor
160	The Miracle of Milkweed by Ross Klongerbo	172	Garden Variety by Colette Giles Tennant
162	On the Beach by Stephen J. Kudless	174	Persephone by Janine Soucie Kelley
164	Making Pies in the Dark by Elaine Wright Christensen	176	Sharing by Sam Friedman
166	Chrysalis by Brian Long

179	The Wrong Month by Anthony Russell White	190	Double Mastectomy by Ann Campanella
180	The diagnosis by Majid Mohiuddin	192	The Door by David H. Huffman, MD
182	Awkward Friends by Laurel Winter	194	Pesach by Elizabeth Rosner
184	She Asked for a Joke or Poem by Charles Rossiter	196	Leaving the Clinic by Marilyn L. Taylor
186	My Friend by Joanne Bergbom	198	Seed by Floyd Skloot
187	Say Yes by Marc J. Straus	199	In Remission by Floyd Skloot
188	Rocky Road by Marc J. Straus	200	To a friend now separated from me by illness by Gretchen Fletcher

202	Dinner Party by Susan Steger Welsh	214	Untitled by B.A. (Bonnie) St. Andrews
204	When Autumn Came by Deborah Gordon Cooper	216	Empathetic Ode by Dorothy Stone
205	The Widow Speaks by John Manesis	218	Clay Pigeons by Elizabeth Winthrop
206	There is a woman falling by Karen Haas-Howland	220	In the Eighties by Helen Schary Motro
208	I did not know his name by Terri S. Hudson	222	Turban by Suellen Kone Wedmore
210	For Lorraine by Dr. Nelson L. Rhodus	224	Gifts by Patti Marshock
212	Theology by Sima Rabinowitz	226	Friends for Life by Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

228	Lines for Spring by Rebecca Pierre	239	Apartment on Third and Brooks by Kjersti Reed
230	For Nina on Her Sixteenth Birthday by Donna Pucciani	240	Glenn's Laugh by Kjersti Reed
232	The Thirteenth Floor by Davi Walders	242	Good Night by Jo Nelson
234	The Daughter, the Moon and Jamaica by Kate Gray	244	Walk Me into the Morning by Beth Shorr Jaffe
236	Hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert after Surgery by Francine Sterle	246	An Oncology Nurse's Tribute by Barbara Hunt, RN, BSN
238	Snatching by Christopher Gutkind	247	For a friend lying in intensive care waiting for her white blood cells to rejuvenate after a bone marrow transplant by Barbara Crooker

3	I entered the room, naked	56	Reconstruction
11	before and after	107	song
38	The Breast	130	Five-Year Anniversary

89	March 29, 1985	158	Red
96	Richard Leaving	160	The Miracle of Milkweed
116	History	242	Good Night
117	mother, I am feeling myself slip

37	The Spy	120	Big Sale Today
68	Diagnosis	139	Mother Eulogy
98	Mourning Doves	170	One Last Favor
99	Widow	205	The Widow Speaks
109	Cigarettes	214	Untitled

36	Reminiscence	230	For Nina on Her Sixteenth Birthday
82	Odds	246	An Oncology Nurse's Ode
130	Five-Year Anniversary	247	For a friend lying in intensive care waiting for her white blood cells to rejuvenate after a bone marrow transplant
146	Let Us Now Praise

84	Chocolates	200	To a friend now separated from me by illness
138	In the Mirror	202	Dinner Party
156	Windstorm	208	I did not know his name
182	Awkward Friends	222	Turban
192	The Door	224	Gifts

16	Prostate Cancer as a Sporting Event	90	Survival Diptych
24	Bi Bye-Bye, Buy	112	Not Listening
29	A Man Learning Women	146	Let Us Now Praise
34	When I inherit the star	186	My Friend
43	Variations on My Room in the Bone Marrow Unit: In the Room of Cows	188	Rocky Road
44	One Hundred and Ten Days	190	Double Mastectomy
58	Diamonds	232	The Thirteenth Floor
70	This Month	239	Apartment on Third and Brooks
80	Nephrostomy Tube Surgery at Age Thirty-Four

12	A Woman Argues with the Casting Director	179	The Wrong Month
112	Not Listening	180	The diagnosis

18	"Poor Devil!"	148	Practicing My Goodbye after He's Gone
46	Midnight in the Pretty Little House	152	An Explanation to My Dying Daughter
69	Guinea Pig	166	Chrysalis
76	A Walk at Dusk	204	When Autumn Came
86	The Seven Sorrows	206	There is a woman falling
96	Richard Leaving	228	Lines for Spring
124	After the Diagnosis	244	Walk Me into the Morning
144	Giving the Darkness Shape

8	There is a river running in the blood of him	136	Self-Examination
10	suddenly, life changes	142	Adagio for Ginny
50	When I had cancer I thought	150	In Cold Dreams before Dawn
54	How to Stay Alive	156	Windstorm
58	Diamonds	162	On the Beach
65	Julie Ann in the Bone Marrow Unit	172	Garden Variety
66	Outside the Bone Marrow Unit	174	Persephone
72	Slow Dancing in the Med-Inn	187	Say Yes
74	Chores	190	Double Mastectomy
114	I Will Breathe and Breathe	212	Theology
122	Ready or Not	218	Clay Pigeons
131	A Mother's Despair	220	In the Eighties
132	Shape Shifter	226	Friends for Life

77	Numb	157	A Mother and a Daughter
78	Absence of Place	164	Making Pies in the Dark
92	Elegy	168	Again, July
94	Valentine's Day, 1975	196	Leaving the Clinic
98	Mourning Doves	205	The Widow Speaks
99	Widow	210	For Lorraine
134	A Fantasy (Thirty Years Later)	238	Snatching
154	Yahrzeit

4	it's never too late	83	A Lesson
6	Farewell to Hair	107	song
14	the good doctors	108	She's All Right
20	Finding God at Montefiore Hospital	110	Poem of the Week
22	The Answer	126	Lucky
28	Because a world may be called into being	128	Palm Sunday
32	Letters Received	153	Courage
47	First Summer	176	Sharing
52	There's not a book on how to do this	184	She Asked for a Joke or Poem
60	Bay Bridge/Rosh Chodesh	194	Pesach
81	Greek	198	Seed
82	Odds	199	In Remission

234	The Daughter, the Moon and Jamaica	240	Glenn's Laugh
236	Hiking in the Anza-Borrego Desert after Surgery	247	For a friend lying in intensive care waiting for her white blood cells to rejuvenate after a bone marrow transplant

12	A Woman Argues with the Casting Director	214	Untitled
24	Bi Bye-Bye, Buy	216	Empathetic Ode
26	The Cancer Patient Talks Back	220	In the Eighties
43	Variations on My Room in the Bone Marrow Unit: In the Room of Cows

40	Oncology in Advent	74	Chores
42	Impotence	102	The cancerous cell
56	Reconstruction	212	Theology
62	How Will Death Arrive?