Centennial
Check out this poem featured in the book, "Optopoetry" written and illustrated by Jonathan Jacesko, OD '17 and other Salus PCO alumni. This book was published in 2016.
The PCO Campus as an Eyeball
As seen on Google Earth, from high up in the sky,
It's a little funny that our campus looks like an eye.
Start with its shape: almost perfectly round,
Like an ocular globe planted in Elkins Park ground.
But on the flag pole-side the circle is incomplete,
A typical iris coloboma forged in parking lot concrete.
That makes the pond in the middle the iris, greenish-blue,
And the island its ectopic pupil where light rays pass through.
The water fountains you see, whether operative or not,
Are the Purkinje image about which we've been taught.
The inner-courtyard windows, so clean, pristine,
On sunny days reflect like biomicroscopy sheen.
The corridor between buildings where pedestrians go
Is for trabecular meshwork aqueous overflow.
By now you've probably got the gist
That the gazebo is a benign wrought-iron cyst.
And in back the road lets cars quickly move
As though speeding in a well-perfused choriocapillary groove.
Now, maybe I'm wrong, and maybe I'm right,
And maybe this campus has nothing to do with sight.
After all, if you ask any of the Audiology students here
They'd probably say our school looks more like an ear.
