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Category Archives: Grief

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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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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On counting cairns

August 2, 2017

Tomorrow my son moves back in bringing inexhaustible items in large clear sacks that swallow the floor like jellyfish claiming …

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In the middle of the night

June 4, 2017

How you pull me down and up at once. In you I see ancient, raw days when I brought something …

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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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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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March 2017

March 30, 2017

Slowly, slowly life comes back. Hair-fine roots far below the surface muster a wiggle, a stretch, and stir for us …

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Early morning on Lake Shore Drive

February 25, 2017

maze of brown at the center, trees empty of leaves, row after row stretching to scattered hazel edging the lake, …

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The heart needs good work

January 26, 2017

All that comes to me now is the prairie, how it is empty to the casual eye, how you walk …

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Small endurances

January 15, 2017

Puddles of snow pool under shrubs – miniature glaciers for voles to cast through. Sparrows, geese, all as one gather …

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