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Category Archives: Dying

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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Your body is returned

November 17, 2016

i. I know because you are me. You came here afraid, chased by storms. You huddle with spare, odd friends …

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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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From Hafiz

October 22, 2016

Everyday they fall. The leaves tumble down through branches, tossed by rolling breeze, find their way to mother earth, shaken …

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6/24

June 25, 2016

we lay here in our pod the world screams crazy past you ask, ‘What is the world?’

The gods, the gods, how they love to hide behind a veil

June 23, 2016

I am not afraid of miracles, though all of my angry doubts must make you think so. I long for …

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Upon waking

March 30, 2016

Last night, I dreamt my dog died. At first she just slipped her leash, and then as I reached to …

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Solstice

December 21, 2015

weep not that the world changes in all of your wanderings; open to the oblivion that softly wipes away the …

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