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Category Archives: Family

2019, my Dad and coming back

March 28, 2020

2019 was a year that was filled with loss for me and my family – a dear aunt, my step …

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Finding things lost

October 4, 2018

I no longer trust myself having searched all morning for the missing piece in our endless jigsaw and come up …

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House in Bryan Woods

October 26, 2017

Driveway grooves into thicket, clearing, beyond first house now needing repair onto big house now overgrown by cedars rooted along …

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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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My father finds comfort in crows

May 3, 2017

Inexplicable. That is what I say when you tell me and all I can do is shrug and count: How …

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An Easter thought

April 14, 2017

It does not seem fair in all the measures of life that our heavy ways hang in expectance on these …

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Even so

March 4, 2017

Even as you sit smoking weed in the room I just cleaned and leave your papers and dirty dishes on …

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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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Conversations with my mother, now long-dead

June 9, 2016

I write to you everyday and each night in my mind — out of sight, out of love, out of …

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