Open Heart
We are not unlike pigs, if only they
stood proudly on two legs, wrote limericks,
ran races by day, businesses by night.
Holding my breath, I stare into the steel
reflection of the scalpel, stainlessly
negotiating the bloody terrain
of this man’s wish-broken car-trampled heart.
While the surgeon works deftly carving this
new home for a porcine graft, I wonder
how my hands would be: apologetic,
curt. For what would you say if, coming home,
you saw a pile of straw, a starving wolf,
a huff, a puff, a piggy dream cut out?
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In ancient Greece, the asclepion was a healing temple dedicated to Asclepius, the God of Medicine. Asclepius learned the art of surgery from the centaur Chiron and had the ability to raise the dead. The Rod of Asclepius is a roughhewn branch entwined with a single serpent.
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Hi! I am Craig Chen, a third year resident physician in anesthesiology at Stanford Hospitals and Clinics. I went to medical school at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to medical school, I studied philosophy and biology at Stanford University, along with a minor in creative writing.
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