Filpi, Piero Joseph

Overview "The moment our family doctor told me she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, I  squeezed my copy of Dante Aleghieri's "​Paradiso" ​ so hard it is still unreadable to this day. My mother had simply gone in for a routine check up, and out she came with cancer for the second time. Days before, I received a phone call from my best friend saying his cancer had spread to his lymph nodes,  and all I could think about was the chaos that life throws us into when we least expect it. These poems are...