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Category Archives: Death

Old elm (revised)

April 14, 2020

Abandoned farmhouse, graying outbuildings. In your final winter, you stood with empty, cracking branches to tell us plain that your …

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Visitation

September 24, 2017

Even the spires of milkweed bend over in the low tumble of wind through the prairie, dry reeds tapping hollow …

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Effigy Mound

May 13, 2017

In my belly, now flat, curled a spine with indistinct tissue wrapped around its tiny bones like those of a …

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On losing Sunny

January 2, 2017

Our communion last night was pizza and chocolates and trailing conversation, a wide prairie for your memory to bound through. …

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Last breaths

December 17, 2016

Evergreens surround your house, a fortress wall heavy with snow. In black recesses I wade, the snow bounds off the …

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11/20

November 20, 2016

Earth grieves each November, again finds itself wailing in sorrow, refusing to get out of bed. For its own tears …

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Waiting for the doctor

November 10, 2016

hazy dry, as if in midair distant beeps, rattles, blood pressure cuff wheezing up, releasing, hour after hour, day may …

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Wondrous grit of life

November 4, 2016

o’ wondrous pain, illuminating discomfort — how you have painted this earth to suit your ease, the slow swing of …

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I think of love

August 26, 2016

I think of love as something that grows form as it ages, sometimes firm, sometimes round, broadening, ambling if allowed. …

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From the ether

July 22, 2016

Late in the afternoon that day, as the low sun pierced the leaves like a thousand glimmering stars, each of …

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