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t m c » p u l s e | o c t o b e r 2 0 1 7 33 Credit: Courtesy photo Stacy R. Nigliazzo, clinical coor- dinator for Memorial Hermann Northeast Emergency Room, wrote these poems after a friend died in a car accident in 2016. Nigliazzo has worked in health care for 19 years, first as a medical practice manager and now as an ER nurse. Her debut poetry collection, Scissored Moon, was published by Press 53 in 2013. Her poems have been featured in literary and medical journals, including JAMA and the Bellevue Literary Review. A Poem Cycle B y S t a c y R . N i g l i a z z o Cloudburst They struck the windshield like iron arrows— stars unpinned from their moorings through her hair, silver on the splintered glass. Ploughshare Where was she when her brain was lost— when her lungs rose and set in a plastic sky— when the decision was made and those who loved her said good-bye, cradling her warm hands? Harvesting Her Heart after the Accident And when the surgeon pierced her breastbone there was a ripple of light— a fluttering— a scatter of fireflies. "Cloudburst" and "Ploughshare" were published previously as part of the As It Ought to Be Saturday Poetry Series. "Harvesting Her Heart after the Accident" was published by Matter Press.