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Happy hypoxia

February 15, 2022

Khyati Gupta Mumbai, India Scots Mission Hospital, Tiberias (Torrance). Hospital beds. Photo. Matson Collection, c. 1934-39. Library of Congress. Via Wikimedia. Public domain.   Poet’s statement: Happy hypoxia is a poem I wrote while trying to capture the thoughts of a patient in solitude infected with coronavirus amidst the second wave of the pandemic.   […]

Claudius: the Caesar never meant to be emperor

January 30, 2017

Abigail Cline Appler Augusta, Georgia, United States   Detail from the painting A Roman Emperor 41AD by Lawrence Alma-Tadema [Public Domain], via Wikimedia Commons Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (10 BCE- 54 AD) was Roman emperor from AD 41 to 54. During his reign, he completed the Roman conquest of Britain, expanded construction projects across […]