April 28, 2016

The Agnew Clinic, 

by Thomas  Eakins
[1889]

WITHIN

The stethoscope, the ear, the eye, the X-ray,

the MRI, the CT/Cat Scan, the PET scan -

all tell some of the within - but it isn’t till the

knife of the surgeon - who opens up the fleshy

within - that we know - what’s really going on.

Sometimes - it takes the knife and the cut of

time and pain - surgeons - to really know - 
what was really going on - in one's within.
And sometimes it’s good - not to know - till we

really know - the what of one’s fleshy within.

© Andy Costello, Reflections 2016

Portrait of Dr. Samuel D. Gross,

[The Gross Clinic] 1875

by Thomas Eakins