Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: L.N.Allen

  • Beech Leaves

    L.N. AllenTrumbull, Connecticut, United States Poet’s statement This poem is about resurrection, no matter how improbable. Beech leaves When birches, cottonwoods, sourwoods, hickoriesyews, willows, ginkgos, and even miserly oaks—Jove’s own tree—have cast away their summer leaveslike shunting off grandparents to nursing homeswhere they can die unseen, beeches hang on to theirsthrough breathless winter. By the…