I In the black of the morning brake lights and street lights strung together like a garland blurred by the arcs of rainwater dragged back and forth across the windshield.
Archive for the ‘Death/Loss/Grief’ Category
In the Black of Winter
Posted in Daughters, Death/Loss/Grief, Fathers, Menopause, Motherhood, Renewal/rebirth, Seasons on December 25, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Coffee Shop
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Poetry, Rain on December 6, 2015 | 2 Comments »
In the coffee shop where we once nestled I sit by the window cold air seeping through. Hard gray rain coming down in diagonals bouncing off the gray sidewalk repelling off the windshields and hoods of gray cars parked outside the café. The pounding kind of rain that even we poets, rain-lovers and darkness-dwellers that […]
The Body Remembers
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Healing on October 18, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
Shoulders hunched chest, lungs, throat tight, constricted sleep forfeited in razor edge vigilance skin and hair and dreams scorched from uncontained wildfires bitten and buried beneath whiteout of cold storms.
Death and the Love Poem
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Existential, Love, Mortality, Poetry, Youth on September 1, 2015 | 1 Comment »
I asked my friend Deb for a poem idea. “Death?” she replied. “LOL.” I hadn’t told her it was intended to be a love poem.
The places you lived in me
Posted in Death/Loss/Grief, Healing, Relationships on August 26, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
With deft hands, tiny elves packed your memories away.