Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Age

  • The old women of Francisco Goya

      Time is running out for these two decrepit old crones who clearly have seen better days. In this 1820 painting titled El Tiempo, Francisco Goya shows the figure of Cronos hovering over the two women, ready to sweep them away with a broom into the memory of time. The woman in white, her face…

  • Five Untitled Poems

    Simon Perchik East Hampton, New York, United States   Mark Rothko, No. 61 (Rust and Blue), 1953, 115 cm × 92 cm (45 in × 36 in). Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles   * Slowly the glass, half filled, half melting down for a slipper not yet hardened into light   is flickering the…

  • Age needs a graying goddess of prophecy and her name shall be Senexa

    Margaret Morganroth Gullette Waltham, MA, USA   The Libyan Sibyl, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Sistine Chapel Age needs a tutelary deity, a woke goddess for the Age of Alzheimer’s and the Age of Longevity. We all deserve a powerful, honored, and glorious crone, representing our values and our value. Here, transparently, before your open eyes, I venture to create…

  • Immigrants, all

    Eric Pfeiffer Tampa, Florida, USA   Poet’s statement: I am so lucky. My poems write themselves. I only listen. Immigrants, all Old age was a foreign country when I first came here, another language spoken, and customs hard to understand. But I have learned the language. Sometimes I even dream in my new tongue though…