Judith H. Montgomery’s poems appear in Poet Lore, Gyroscope, and Tahoma Literary Review, and elsewhere. Her first collection, Passion, received the 2000 Oregon Book Award. Her fourth book, Litany for Wound and Bloom, appeared in August 2018. Her prize-winning narrative medicine chapbook, Mercy, appeared in March 2019. “Against Oblivion” is one of many poems/paths she’s taken to explore her husband’s cancer diagnosis and what it means for both him and her over the past seventeen years. This poem was accepted just before we were told he must have another major surgery in early 2022. Asbestos related.