Welcome! I’m Deborah Bayer, writer and workshop facilitator.
I am (mostly) retired from the practice of Infectious Disease and Palliative Care. I write poems and personal essays, and I’m working on a memoir about the need for emotional support in the workplace.
I facilitate writing groups via Zoom. These groups blend the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) methodology with the Narrative Medicine workshop format.
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A Rope Made of Bandages
Poems by Deborah Bayer
AWA Workshops
The supportive approach of the AWA method lends itself to healing from all kinds of trauma, including the trauma of medical training.
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Blog Archive
Each Image Makes Its Way
Each Image Makes Its Way The wall between us is semi-permeable, merely a membrane. It would be translucent if there were light here. We are cells, the tiniest units of her and we are alive now, revitalized. We endured the chemo while our faster growing sisters, the...
Supplicant: Pay Attention
Supplicant Matins The campanile across town sounds the canonical hours. My sleepless all-night vigil ends when dawn begins to break through the hospital window. My fast is broken when the tray of cold oatmeal arrives on my bedside table. I remove the plastic dome....
Specific Gravity
Specific Gravity Once my heart was ballast in my chest, so sinkingly heavy I couldn’t stand. I slept for as many hours as there were memories. I couldn’t bear to look at myself, at my bloated face, my dull eyes. As time went on, I learned to throw everything,...