TWENTY-FOURTH ANNIVERSARY

first there were words
words on a screen
or printed

then there were 
poems swapped

then spoken words
and words unspoken

and then
there was

absence

Greg Stidham is a retired pediatric intensivist (ICU physician) currently living in Kingston, Ontario, with his wife Pam and their two foundling “canine kids.” Greg’s passion for medicine has yielded in retirement to his other lifelong passions—literature and creative writing. He is the author of a memoir, a short story collection, and one poetry chapbook.