Rafael Campo teaches and practices general internal medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He is the author of 1993 National Poetry Series Award winner for  The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World; the Lambda Literary Award for poetry for What the Body Told; and another Lambda Literary Award for memoir, The Poetry of Healing: A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity and Desire. Diva, a collection of poetry is scheduled for release September, 1999.

Technology and Medicine
The transformation is complete. My eyes
Are microscopes and cathode X-ray tubes
In one, so I can see bacteria,
Your underwear, and even through to bones.
My hands are hypodermic needles, touch
Turned into blood: I need to know your salts
And chemistries, a kind of intimacy
That won't bear pondering. It's more than love,
More weird than ESP--my mouth, for instance,
So small and sharp, a dry computer chip
That never gets to kiss or taste or tell
A brief truth like "You're beautiful," or worse,
"You're crying just like me; you are alive."

from The Other Man Was Me: A Voyage to the New World (Houston, Texas: Arte Publico Press--University of Houston, 1994)

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