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Chief Complaint taps his baton
and they break the sterile hush—
the fussy child with chords of sobs,
as healer asks Mom of febrile nights

Moderato
Asks melodic queries of
the present's past
nature of stool:
blood or mucus?
nature of vomitus:
blood or bile?
asks of syncopated functions,
do ins and outs go on?
suckled breasts, how long the child has fed
soiled diapers, how many the child has wet
asks of cough staccatos,
coryza legatos,
ear tugging, nasal flaring,
breathing, wheezing, grunting, eating,
peeing, teething, walking, grieving?
queries: a healer's seeds to sow.

Adagio
Her solo, Mother delivers with pride
gravidas and paras hold pain and bliss
her lone voice sounds a tremolo of joy for her
bundle of 7 pounds, 13 ounces of
pink Apgar-9 perfection
healthy, home from the hospital,
developing, mama-dada babbling
cruising, mimicking, grasping
immunized from lyrical exanthems,
arpeggios of rubella rubeola varicella
uncomplicated . . . [Full Text of this Article]