Giving Back Grief

A Poem: Giving Back Grief

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I am from a long line of grief From the tears of women Of mothers Of the unmothered Dark concentric stains, decreasing in size Like the vantage point of the horizon, the perspective shift of space and time. I am from me, my…
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I didn't know we were flowers

I Did Not Know We Are Flowers

I did not know we are flowers. I didn’t know until after I sobbed most of the afternoon for the tiny body of a mouse.   I was in the garden and noticed the live trap I had put there to catch the voles that were eating my purple-sprouted…
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Billy Boy

Making Amends

To All Those Creatures Who Enriched My Life Recently, I have been donating money monthly to a horse rescue (Colby's Crew Rescue) that buys horses from a slaughter facility, rehabilitates them, and finds them good homes. These horses have been…
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Stumpy the unicorn fawn eating an apple

Stumpy, the Unicorn Fawn

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Today I Buried Stumpy (June 2021) My tears fall like glass. They pile up and cut me. I flounder through them as they slash my flesh. The warm healing water has not yet arrived. My tears are not a salve. They do not soothe. I ache. I ache for…
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life after divorce and learning to love depicted by image of eclipse

Learning to Love the Hard Way

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Eventually, after the divorce, I married again. A second marriage for both of us. Finally, an adult. Two adults. I find connection, nourishment, and emotional safety that I could not have dreamt of before. We learned to love again.
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