Introduction: Doctors and writers / Lee Gutkind
Science and poetry: a view from the divide / Alison Hawthorne Deming
Astronomy III: grief and memory / Carol Sanford
Earthquake country / Susan Mann
The moon on ice / Scott A. Sanford
In the dark / Geoffrey Alexander
With enough aspirin: living for now in pain's company / Luanne Armstrong
What they don't tell you about hurricanes / Philip Gerard
The lightning in my eyes / Jean Hanson
Chimera / Gerald N. Callahan
Proud flesh / Mara Gorman
Weird science / Michael G. Stephens
On a duet, sung long after the music had stopped / Laura S. Distelheim
The lyapunov exponent / James Glanz
A well-worn hanky / Simon Pang
Blur (the interior of a diagnosis) / Ruth Gila Berger.