Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: Lament to Measles

  • Lament to measles

    Nazan Bilgel Bursa, Turkey   I am the sorrowful, dull winter sun Resting silently on the naked branches of the trees Warming and soothing Villages, roads, and mountain stones. I saw a village far away Behind the mountains, you couldn’t know So described the poet Ceyhun Atuf Kansu himself when he saw so many dying…