{"id":2971,"date":"2016-04-05T01:46:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T01:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2971"},"modified":"2017-03-25T04:29:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T04:29:36","slug":"do-not-touch-by-mirissa-d-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/do-not-touch-by-mirissa-d-price\/","title":{"rendered":"Do Not Touch by Mirissa D. Price"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2972 aligncenter lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coffee-shop-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"coffee shop\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coffee-shop-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/coffee-shop.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 225px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 225\/300;\" \/><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Do Not Touch<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Mirissa D. Price<\/p>\n<p>There is another kind of life form<br \/>\nUnlike other human beings<br \/>\nCoated in freckled skin<br \/>\nA glass frame of amorphous feelings.<\/p>\n<p>There is another kind of skeleton<br \/>\nNot made of calcium stone<br \/>\nBlown by an artisan\u2019s wrinkled hand,<br \/>\nFlawed by a tremor no body owned.<\/p>\n<p>There is a girl walking amongst you<br \/>\nBorne from a union of love and waste<br \/>\nSlowly cracking from within<br \/>\nHer quill trembling for a change.<\/p>\n<p>There is a woman in your presence<br \/>\nReady to break by the slightest touch<br \/>\nAn optical illusion<br \/>\nOf clarity that life is too much.<\/p>\n<p>There is a sculpture on display<br \/>\nA prized art form for the world to see<br \/>\nA skeleton of tattered precision<br \/>\nMade in the image of me.<br \/>\n###<\/p>\n<p>At the age of ten, Mirissa D. Price of Tucson, Arizona, awoke to a doctor&#8217;s rattling prognosis: she would forever remain in a nursing home due to a neurological injury. Today, Mirissa is a 2019 DMD candidate at Harvard School of Dental Medicine with a passion to spread pain-free smiles in the field of pediatric oral and maxillofacial surgery. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology with minors in Chemistry and Leadership Studies from the University of Colorado Denver, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Honors and Leadership Program with the distinction of 2014 Campus and Boettcher Foundation Student Leader of the Year. She further has dental assistant and radiology certification from the Colorado School of Dental Assisting, and practiced as a chairside assistant with Grout Family Dentistry in Littleton, Colorado. With immense support and determination, Mirissa&#8217;s childhood prognosis did not define her but motivated her to make a difference, whether through her biomaterials research in nanogel composites at the University of Colorado Denver, her publication in a contemporary cinema evaluation text, her work organizing HSDM\u2019s Give Kids a Smile event, and her leadership in the formation of a nonprofit self-efficacy program for youth, Crafting Yourself. In Mirissa&#8217;s eyes, a pain-free smile is not a privilege but a right, and she is honored each day to do her part to \u201cbe the change\u201d and spread those pain-free smiles with the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the age of ten, Mirissa D. 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