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31 Days of Pink Ribbon Poetry

Collected by Alysa Cummings
Digital images by Alysa Cummings
Affiliation: The Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Last Modified: October 19, 2007

How to Live in a Continual Present
Sarah Sutro
From: Unbearable Uncertainty: the fear of breast cancer recurrence(Edited by Amy Bowes, Terry S. Gingras, Beth A. Kaplowitt, Anne Perkins) Pioneer Valley Breast Cancer Network, 2000

be given
a
diagnosis
of cancer

have your
nodes
removed

learn that
you will
never
know
how long
you
may
live

notice
how the
light
lingers
in trees,
how
hawks
circle,
how
the
red
maple
turns
green
at
its
tips,
how
a
white
moth
presses
its
wings
together,
then
apart,
how
the
Buddha
in
the
garden
loses
his
paint
yet
continues
to gaze
at the world.

Quotable Healing - Quote of the Day

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

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