Hektoen International

A Journal of Medical Humanities

Tag: lonesome valley

  • Solitude

    Donna PuccianiWheaton, Illinois, United States You’ve got to walk that lonesome valley . . .—American Folk Song We learn to be alonefor months when microscopicmurder floats in the airlike so much smoke. We learn to fearthe passing strangerwhose only misdeedis walking two large dogson our shared sidewalk,their communal breathexploding in lethal stardust. We learn to…