Fall 2019: The Health Humanities Journal of UNC-CH

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Marrow

Khaki Loughran I see the marrow in the bag deep red, thick as molasses flowing through the tube into that little sleeping body young in age but old in experience my little brother sleeps on as a war between cells erupts in his body I tenderly rub my lower back the bandage is large, all-consuming I pray my marrow does the job

-Khaki Loughran is a sophomore from Atlanta, GA, pursuing a major in English and a minor in Statistics.-


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