Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Eleonore Blaurock-Busch

  • Aniza

    Eleonore Blaurock-BuschGermany I miss my people and my home,but don’t send me back. I don’t have a passport,no papers. Dad gave them to my husband-to-be,the one who couldn’t take me now,and I am not sad about it. I am crying about my sister.They cut her up, sewed her tightand her fat, old husband, he likes…

  • Memory – Grandpa Louis

    Eleonore Blaurock-BuschHersbruck, Germany Poet’s statement Poetry allows us to summarize human and world issues in condensed lines and emotion. By condensing, we focus on that which we consider important. MemoryHe is old now, my older brother.Hip and knee replacement,the prostatectomy took a toll.He is slower, more pale and wrinkledand before he forgets morethan his money…