I specialize in specialists.
My body segmented into disciplines
multidisciplinary multimorbidities
I become freelance medical administrator.They say “care team”
casually,
as though they plan
annual conference comradery
Summit Subject: My Flesh.
Be mysterious, they tell us, but Rebecca Wood would like to be anything but. Through poetry, prose, and clever wordplay, Multimorbid details the frustrations of seeking, asking for, and receiving care. Wood speaks to the mental toll of disability (“Thoughts poisoned feel/are/feel true / Evidence of competency, capacity, capability / trapped behind glass”)—even as she is interjected by the people who love her—the straight line between dis-ease and defeat. Wood’s oftentimes darkly comic take on disability leaves everyone complicit and a little bit scarred—care teams lost in the red tape of their own ‘efficiency’; friends and patients alike, trying and failing, and doing their best. And the patient—too patient—advocating, explaining, (self) soothing again. Welcome to the multiaffected, multifaceted, multimorbid life.
Release Date: May 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964932-25-5
56 pages
I specialize in specialists.
My body segmented into disciplines
multidisciplinary multimorbidities
I become freelance medical administrator.They say “care team”
casually,
as though they plan
annual conference comradery
Summit Subject: My Flesh.
Be mysterious, they tell us, but Rebecca Wood would like to be anything but. Through poetry, prose, and clever wordplay, Multimorbid details the frustrations of seeking, asking for, and receiving care. Wood speaks to the mental toll of disability (“Thoughts poisoned feel/are/feel true / Evidence of competency, capacity, capability / trapped behind glass”)—even as she is interjected by the people who love her—the straight line between dis-ease and defeat. Wood’s oftentimes darkly comic take on disability leaves everyone complicit and a little bit scarred—care teams lost in the red tape of their own ‘efficiency’; friends and patients alike, trying and failing, and doing their best. And the patient—too patient—advocating, explaining, (self) soothing again. Welcome to the multiaffected, multifaceted, multimorbid life.
Release Date: May 28, 2026
ISBN: 978-1-964932-25-5
56 pages
