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Khan1  \nAccepted: 7 July 2025 / Published online: 28 July 2025 © The Author(s) 2025  \nI think I lost something in the cave of their cheek between the rivers of muscle somewhere uncharted where the probes can’t reach a part of my living soul was left in them  \nsomething hardened something fossilized in me  \nthere was ihsan in the tears I wept for death  \nas if every cold body had blood of my own  \nas if every gray eye had held their gaze with mine  \nas if I once knew them and loved them  \nBut now my face is bone-dry.  \nI no longer wince with my proximity to their heart as I gently reveal their intimate arteries  \nNow I am proud of the nerves I have pulled and I no longer see their  \n* Sara B. Khan  \n[skhan11@neomed.edu](skhan11@neomed.edu)  \n1 Northeast Ohio Medical University, 4209 OH-44, Rootstown, OH 44272, United States  \ngaping mouths their peeking eyes  \ntheir outstretched arms  \ntheir unveiled hands  \nI think I lost something soft Maybe it was hardened under the lights  \nOne day I will face the ones who knew them and loved them  \nI will have to pretend like I didn’t see their father without skin  \nI will have to pretend like I didn’t smile and prod their mother’s spinal cord  \nI will cry and pretend that I always have and that I never stopped.  \nAnd the I never lost something that is gone.  \nAcknowledgements I would like to acknowledge the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology at NEOMED, especially Dr. Jessie Young and Dr. Erin Franks, for supporting me through the events that inspired this poem. I would also like to acknowledge all body donors; medical education and advancement would not be the same without their noble contribution.  \nAuthor Contribution S.K. composed and edited the poem.  \nData Availability No datasets were generated or analysed during the current study.  \nDeclarations  \nCompeting interests The authors declare no competing interests.  \nOpen Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .  \nPublisher’s Note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.","cbCaiodapolkyRLM","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiodapolkyRLM","pdf",350034,"English","# POEM/FICTION\n## “Ossified”\n## Acknowledgements\n## Author Contribution\n## Data Availability\n## Declarations\n## Open Access\n## Publisher’s Note","[{\"question\":\"Who is the author of the poem “Ossified”?\",\"answer\":\"The poem is by Sara B. 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