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Leave the dishes.
For the past few weeks I’ve been emotionally unsettled, off balance and vulnerable. I have blamed it to the post vacation funk that I used to finding myself muddling through when I return to work after time off. I’ve also blamed it on the added stress that I’ve been encountering in my professional [...]
Filed under: 2009, Poem, death, grief, life, loss, poetry | 6 Comments »
(A companion piece to Corina’s blog post on a Yellow Rose)
The young woman’s eyes darted across the table. She looked lost in the familiar surroundings. There she was at a table she had sat at thousands of times before next to the the fragile looking woman. At first glance, an outside observer would have guessed [...]
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I take my time
Unearthing the small things that she left behind.
Hand written notes.
A pill bottle.
Me.
Artifacts of her.
Proof.
She was real.
She wrote this.
She held this.
She loved me.
Items once inconsequential are now irreplaceable.
What mysteries they hold.
Mysteries of me.
Inside of her my heart started to beat.
My arms moved for the first time.
She knew me first.
I am an [...]
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Living in a small town the idea of “Seven Degrees of Separation” is laughable. At most, two complete strangers are separated by a slim thread. When tragedy strikes a small community the effects are felt like a rippling tsunami.
Over the past week the rural community in which I live was abuzz over the disappearance of [...]
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Today I finished reading the Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin. It’s the story of Liz, a 15 year girl who was killed while riding her bicycle. She wakes up Elsewhere.
Elsewhere is somewhere that people live their lives backwards. You arrive in Elsewhere and leave once you’ve “grown down” to a baby. Then, you are bundled up [...]
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Mom had passed away in August and Christmas was approaching and I found myself 5 months pregnant, sad, and in the middle of the end of a marriage. It was our first Christmas without Mom. Christmas was one of her many favorite holidays. Anytime that she had us altogether made her [...]
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