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Editor’s note: This spring, Health Affairs held its first ever poetry contest. Three winning poems were published in the journal. We’re also featuring some of our other favorites on the Blog throughout the month of October.
Mental Illness Runs In My Blood
My lineage has holes
family members who have held clippers
to the branch keeping them on the family tree
ropes hanging from its arms are ribbons tied to fingers
help you to remember
my grandma draws crochet needles through
all of these dropped stitches
her job to stop the apple
falling so far from the tree.