Small Rain by Garth Greenwald

A poet's life is upended by a person medical emergency which went to me in an ICU. he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.

This is a searching, sweeping novel set at the furthest edges of human experience, with the forces that give life value/memory poetry music care/are all thrown in sharp relief prime expands and contracts. Sudden intimacies bloom.