This Is Its Own Kind of Love
Abstract
Someone is in the walls,
crawling around.
My daughter hears cracking, and
they come out,
bend close to her, whistle
Someone is in the walls,
crawling around.
My daughter hears cracking, and
they come out,
bend close to her, whistle
Telaina Morse Eriksen is the author of the Amazon bestseller and winner of the 2017 Bisexual Book Award, Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child. Her poems, essays, and stories have appeared in Under the Sun, Compose Journal, The Fem, poemmemoirstory, ARS Medica, and in many other online and in-print publications. She received her MFA in creative writing from Antioch University Los Angeles. She is the mom of two adult children, and lives in East Lansing, Michigan with her husband Andrew and their Shetland Sheepdog Cordelia.
About the Journal
Ars Medica is one of Canada’s first health humanities journals. Launched in 2004, we transitioned in 2014 to a web-only format. Ars Medica provides an online venue for dialogue, meaning-making, and the representation of experiences of the body, health, wellness, and encounters within the medical system. Content includes narratives from patients and health care workers, including fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and visual art. We also include sections on writing by and about children, international health, and other voices routinely silenced in the healthcare system.