On Call, Still

For twenty-five years Sumit Parikh has been the one who walks in at 3 a.m. and says the sentence that no parent survives intact. On Call, Still is what he wrote down. Twenty-three short poems. None of them look away.

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Sumit Parikh is a pediatric neurologist and poet whose work walks the long hallway between delivering the bad news and the family not knowing it yet. His work has appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Intima, and The Indianapolis Review, and in the anthologies Where It Hurts: Dispatches from the Emotional Frontlines of Medicine as well as Political Poems by the Marbled Sigh.