It Sounds Like a City on a Distant Planet
Erin Murphy
It sounds like a city on a distant planet:
Glioblastoma. You think of it as an outpost
in the left parietal lobe, a place where aliens
infiltrate your brain. You’d share this idea
with your sci-fi-loving son, but the creatures
have seized your words. Next: your ability
to move. They have big plans. So did you.
Erin Murphy is the author of three collections of poetry: Dislocation
and Other Theories (Word Press, 2008), Too Much of This World
(Mammoth Books, 2008), and Science of Desire (Word Press, 2004). With
Todd Davis, she is co-editor of Mandala Literary Review, Writer’s Forum, an
anthology of poetry and creative nonfiction, forthcoming from SUNY Press. Erin
teaches English and Creative Writing at The Pennsylvania State University, Altoona College.
Photo by Bill Englander