Dayspring
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Quiet mornings are a gift, especially when one lives near a metropolis. What time of day speaks to you?
Read MoreDecember Sundown
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This time of year so many of us reflect to gain clarity. Something about endings and beginnings that sparks this human behavior. May your new year be clear and bright.
Read MoreThe Day the Music Stopped
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Standing at her graveside, the elder told the story, in native Anishinaabe tongue, of how the world began. We didn’t know a single word yet understood we were in that place where death and birth meet.
Read Morethere is a tree beyond my window
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The woman's eye in the tree, watching me write, gives new meaning to "live oak". Seemed like an opportunity to write a poem. Enjoy!
Read MoreI taste the loneliness
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How did she know? Might we each get a glimpse of the inevitable before it happens? Would you want to know?
Read MoreCourageous Captain
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We get to choose the words and behaviors we use to cope when devastation finds us. In this piece, using the found poem poetic form, words from an article on a life well lived are remastered to convey the starkness many people experience.
Read MoreWedding Band
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The loss of innocence and trust hurt worse than the black eye. You can walk away.
Read MoreBlack and Blue
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Connecting color to our thoughts can bring a memory, an emotion or imagery to life. This poem is written from the power of color and how we might imagine where our loved ones go when they’ve left us here.
Read MoreDream of Oak
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Just when I feel a lack of imagination, comes a dream. An unbidden act of vivid imagination pushing its message, its beauty, the unknown into the prefrontal cortex of a prosaic mind.
Read MoreBow Down Old Sally
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Written as a fifteen-year-old, Lena's poem reminds us of our enduring place in the universe.
Read MoreGrief is Everywhere
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A grief trigger poem I wrote about the things we notice after our loved one is gone.
Read MoreThe little fish who flew on Northwest Airlines
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In this story, about the things we do for our pets, the phrase “no one left behind” comes to mind.
Read MoreDeath is in My House
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My daughter, Lena, experienced a near fatal health crisis about six months before she walked on. Contrasting her thoughts before and after that hospitalization, her words bring clarity to the thin veil between life and death.
Remember with me, that's your gift
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A person in grief wants to remember and talk about their loved one despite the double-edged sword. How can you help when they can't ask?
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