To Kill A Year - Poetry by Olivia Davies

 From the 5/6/2021 newsletter

Poetry by Olivia Davies

To Kill A Year

I wish I could show you in news clips

The loud clang of the beginning,

The silent empty of the middle,

The painful drone of the end

I wish I could show you in pictures the loss, 

But it was hidden behind, between, below

masks

the most deafening silence

the most provocative noise

I wish I’d never have to show you at all.

Olivia Davies is a graduating 4th year medical student who will be starting her residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital this summer. Her poem, To Kill A Year, will be featured in the upcoming edition of MCW’s Auscult: A Literary and Arts Journal.

Ms. Davies is an Associate Editor of The Transformational Times.