Aloe Haiku

Medicine in the wild

Hi there.

I don't often mess with poetic forms, but haiku is one that's just simple enough for me to embrace when the syllables feel right. Since I was busy most of today substitute teaching, here's one I wrote in Curacao, shortly after visiting the aloe vera farm Curaloe. Instead of using their products to treat the sunburn I got on the last day of our …