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Description: 
An immersive reading of Spring and All Poem XVI by William Carlos Williams with reflection on signs of illness, jaundice, liver failure, onomatopoeia and poetic apostrophe.

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https://anauscultation.wordpress.com/ 

Work:
Spring and All, Poem XVI
By William Carlos Williams

O tongue
licking
the sore on
her netherlip

O toppled belly

O passionate cotton
stuck with
matted hair

elysian slobber
from her mouth
upon
the folded handkerchief

I can’t die

--moaned the old
jaundiced woman
rolling her
saffron eyeballs

I can’t die
I can’t die

References:

Spring and All:
https://www.amherst.edu/system/files/media/0881/Spring%2520and%2520All-WCW.pdf 
or
https://www.tatteredcover.com/book/9781513283029 

William Carlos Williams: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams  

Poetic Apostrophe: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/apostrophe-literary-device-meaning 

Baughn RE, Musher DM. Secondary syphilitic lesions. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2005 Jan;18(1):205-16.

Health Quality Ontario. In-home care for optimizing chronic disease management in the community: an evidence-based analysis. Ont Health Technol Assess Ser. 2013 Sep 1;13(5):1-65. 

NB Tattered Cover is a local Denver bookstore