The grass is always less sterile on the other side

PLEASE TELL US A LITTLE ABOUT WHAT INSPIRED THIS WORK: This poem, which takes the form of a Renku (or Solo Renga, a series of haikus that come together to form a story when read sequentially) was inspired by the musings of a frequent hospital patient, a chronically ill person- the author, who underwent a series of prolonged hospitalizations and medical procedures over the period of about a year, noted the exhaustions, realizations, and idiosyncrasies of this experience.