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Archive for the ‘Death/Loss/Grief’ Category
Out of the Labyrinth
Posted in Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Legends and Mythology on May 8, 2017 | 1 Comment »
Grave Goods
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Renewal/rebirth on April 23, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
The first time you died I wanted to fill your grave with artifacts from our union too precious to live above ground.
Unwitting Witness
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, Ducks, Mortality, Poetry on March 19, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
You’ll say I’m anthropomorphizing reading too much into things projecting making something out of nothing making it about me.
Two Years Ago
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Love, Prayer, Relationships on January 10, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Two years ago today, you died, Dad. You missed the Alaska cruise, the week in London, two weddings, one at the exquisitely chic Sonoma winery, where you would have made that face you made whenever you succumbed to pressure to taste a great red wine, which never delivered anything close to the two-packet Sweet-n-Low […]
At the Kitchen Window, New Year’s Eve
Posted in Birds, Death/Loss/Grief, New Year's, Renewal/rebirth on December 31, 2016 | 1 Comment »
Slowly, slowly I wash our last dishes allow the too-warm water to redden my hands to just the right amount of pain so I will remember that this is what it took to release the hardened remnants from the places I used to feed on you.