Coping Through Writing: Trying Something New

I attended a workshop called Poetry as a Coping Tool: How Writing Can Help with Kelsey Bigalow. She introduced erasure poetry or blackout poetry where you take a document and delete words until you are left with…something. I tried this with my lab report from my lung biopsy after my diagnosis:

03/15/24
Right Lower Lobe
LUNG
growing nodule
Specimen Collected
atypical cells
MARKEDLY ATYPICAL
positive
DIAGNOSIS
MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA
MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA
MUCINOUS ADENOCARCINOMA

I like how it sort of tells a story of diagnosis, from finding the nodule to collecting the biopsy, to finding out what it is.