You were the prettiest
of her brain, with cortex
flowing down, quite shapely
in both lobes, vermis too,
a kind of southern belle
but that was yesterday,
before the war, ante-
bellum, when a blue clot
marched on gray matter, thus
scorching the matrix and
starving the neurons and
raising the pressure which
in turn forced you below,
a life and marble-white
pedicle torn apart,
an organ divided.
Footnotes
Listen to Dr. Possner read this poem, available exclusively on Neurology® for the iPad®.
- Copyright © 2012 by AAN Enterprises, Inc.
Letters: Rapid online correspondence
REQUIREMENTS
If you are uploading a letter concerning an article:
You must have updated your disclosures within six months: http://submit.neurology.org
Your co-authors must send a completed Publishing Agreement Form to Neurology Staff (not necessary for the lead/corresponding author as the form below will suffice) before you upload your comment.
If you are responding to a comment that was written about an article you originally authored:
You (and co-authors) do not need to fill out forms or check disclosures as author forms are still valid
and apply to letter.
Submission specifications:
- Submissions must be < 200 words with < 5 references. Reference 1 must be the article on which you are commenting.
- Submissions should not have more than 5 authors. (Exception: original author replies can include all original authors of the article)
- Submit only on articles published within 6 months of issue date.
- Do not be redundant. Read any comments already posted on the article prior to submission.
- Submitted comments are subject to editing and editor review prior to posting.
You May Also be Interested in
Topics Discussed
Alert Me
Recommended articles
White and gray matter alterations in adults with Niemann-Pick disease type C
In vivo evidence of cerebellar atrophy and cerebral white matter loss in Huntington disease
Salivary cortisol, brain volumes, and cognition in community-dwelling elderly without dementia
Gray matter atrophy patterns within the cerebellum-neostriatum-cortical network in SCA3