What transpired or what we wanted to happen? Dream or lie?
Archive for the ‘Death/Loss/Grief’ Category
What difference?
Posted in Aging, Death/Loss/Grief, Memory on June 9, 2024 | Leave a Comment »
Broken string
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Israel, Prayer, The Soul on October 12, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
-in memoriam for the more than 1300 Israelis murdered by Hamas militants this week and –in honor of the courage of the remaining Hamas hostages Captors cover my eyes, disorient dismember one by one, leave open my ears to vibrations of panic and despair. I percuss the beat of the wish for death, frantic shallow […]
Eyes of Death in the Callejón Below
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Guanajuato on April 11, 2023 | Leave a Comment »
I spent my days waiting for the whinny of the tethered horse, the monarch butterfly’s black and yellow stripes resting atop purple Jacaranda petals, the ephemeral hummingbird in the almost bare late-season Hibiscus.
Returning home: today’s sunrise 7:38 am, sunset 4:20 pm
Posted in Coming home, Death/Loss/Grief, Guanajuato, Isolation/Belonging, México, Pacific Northwest, Travel on December 4, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
Colors emerge at night, programmed. No trace of the human hand, no flick of a wrist.
The Last Visit
Posted in Cemetery, Death/Loss/Grief, Encerrado, Guanajuato on February 3, 2021 | Leave a Comment »
The east section of the cemetery has been fenced off. The grass is unnaturally green, sodden. Headstones are strung like beads from tree roots that have surfaced. A note nailed to a venerable tree warns visitors to avoid this area, or, at the least, use extreme caution. It explains: sectional liners have aged poorly, there […]