What It’s Like Off Shift

The ghost was in my bed again last night

I sang a lullaby, I rocked, she breathed

I held her to me, and she stayed awhile.

Maya Sorini

Maya J. Sorini is a poet, performer, and medical student with a background in trauma surgery research. She has a master’s degree and has taught in Columbia University’s Narrative Medicine program, and continues to work as a freelance Narrative Medicine workshop facilitator. Her work has appeared in The Journal of the American Medical Association, Tendon Magazine, Snapdragon: A Journal of Art and Healing, Tofu Ink, and Doxy's Op Med. She has performed her work as part of Resilience Dance Company St. Louis's multidisciplinary performance, "Stanzas and Sculptures" and for Frontline Art's Annual Benefit. She currently attends Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine and lives in Bergen County with her grandmother.