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Visages

Jason D. Eubanks, MD

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  • From University Hospitals Case Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio.

    Current Author Address: Jason D. Eubanks, MD; e-mail, jdeubanks2002@yahoo.com.

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Two of us walk
The same path, in different ways—
Stumbling upward,
I'm scuffing boot toes on scree
While he strides down
From the Col
He recently conquered
With a more easy, confident lope,
As Mount Blanc's snowy stare
Watches us watch each other—
His a fire-scarred-leather-taut
Elongation of featured skin
Burned beyond repair,
Yet with a weathered resistance
I almost envy,
So tight that pain, like rain,
Might bounce as if from a trampoline,
A mask from which he measures me,
In comparison, smooth of face, perhaps too pliable,
A still beatable softness
In a sometimes handsome—
We pass in a bonjour moment,
Converging, then diverging,
Brushing planets of seemingly different substance
Running our predetermined orbits,
We are linked in this—
Though the path is well-worn
In the darkness of the mountain shadow,
Solitude is our only companion,
And the face of it matters not at all.
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Eubanks JD. Visages. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158:780. doi: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-10-201305210-00022

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Published: Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(10):780.

DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-158-10-201305210-00022

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