Tag: Eden
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The physician’s guide to The Garden of Earthly Delights
Nora Fisher-CampbellPortland, Oregon, United States I have returned repeatedly to The Garden of Earthly Delights as a strange and fascinating representation of the human experience. The triptych, painted in the late fifteenth to early sixteenth century by Hieronymus Bosch, depicts a fever-dream vision of Eden, Earth, and the Last Judgement.1 On the left panel, God…
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Pathology
Eden AlmasudeMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States Sipping Scotch and watching fava beansSpurt new life from the earthI ruminate:a dead man’s ribcage, mutilatedThe skin of his scalp,Limp without a skull beneathfor: science and medicine?Or curiosity?I smell the morgueIn sweat from my run and wonderhow he can rest in peacewhen his lungs are sliced,his brain in a bucket,tissue ready…