Health: Poetry offers outlet to cancer patients   How I feared
chemo, afraid/  It would change me./  It did./  Something
dissolved inside me./  Tears began a slow drip;/  I cried at the
news story/  Of a lost boy found in the woods ... /  At the
surprising beauty/  Of a bright leaf falling/  Like the last
strand of hair from my head./  Potvin, now 47 and living in
Derry, N.H., recently published "Sound Travels on Water"
(Finishing Line Press), a collection of poems about her
experience with cancer. And she has organized the Prickly Pear
Poetry Project, a series of workshops for cancer patients.  "The
creative process can be really healing," Lotvin said in an
interview. "Loss, mortality and even hopefulness were on my
mind, and I found that through writing poetry I was able to
express some of those concepts in a way that helped me process
what I was thinking."  In April, the National Association for
Poetry Therapy, whose members include both medical doctors and
therapists, will hold a conference in Chicago wit