Tag: eyes
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Munchausen by Proxy
Charles HalstedDavis, California, United States My last patient of the morning was a teenage girl, just turned eighteen. She walked in slowly, her face in agony, apprehensive. Her mother said the pain had begun at age twelve, about when she started to menstruate, yet it never let up, periods or not. Refusing food, she began…
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Ignes Fatui of the neurotic mind
Ashten R. DuncanTulsa, Oklahoma, United States Rocking in my vessel sturdyUpon the waters of a swamp so dirty,I am in the crow’s nestEn route to my impending test. Ever since I was young,I have been given to the far-flung:Quiet panic of a possible foe,Wishes to never disturb another’s flow. In the confines of the nest,I…
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Blessed is the heart
Jeanne BrynerNewton Falls, Ohio, United States Peacemaker inside the great barn father of us all, he passes the meat plate, its thick roast to the left his fork last in line. Bless his bulbous nose, ruddy face and bloodshot eyes, his slur of words over time. This living space offers no remote, not one easy…
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Nature telling her secrets: the Kepler–Descartes connection
Ronald FishmanChicago, Illinois, United States Nature tells us one secret in terms of another, and she may refuse to disclose one secret until another has been laid bare.– T.S. Kuhn1 In 1604, Johannes Kepler solved the problem of how light is refracted within the eye to produce an image on the surface of the retina. This problem…