TY - JOUR AU - Lee, Rebecca Coles PY - 2019/02/28 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Bodies of Work JF - Ars Medica JA - AM VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Poetry DO - UR - https://ars-medica.ca/index.php/journal/article/view/619 SP - AB - <p class="p1">The first poem, Colostrum, is about the hunger one feels long after infancy. It parallels the idea of breast milk/nursing and all the problems that come with nurturance.  </p><p class="p1">Presbycusis is about the process of old age. It chronicles the span of life where one first accumulates a variety of emotional wealth (measured in sounds) and then the gradual taking away of each existence.</p><p class="p1"> </p><p class="p2"> </p><p class="p2"> </p> ER -