Goodbye Dad
The hospital room is crowded with chairs, monitors, an IV and the startling noise of my father’s breathing…
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Envelopes
“Like white linen butterflies, envelopes flew and fluttered with each passing car. Refugees on the asphalt…”
Stages of Grief
“Anger’s fierce light split the shell I wore, seared this grief-bruised brain, with fiery cleansing…”
Steerage (War Bride)
“My daughter’s line will be struck out, as that on so many others’ cards have been. Hasty burials at sea.”
The Namesake and the Unnamed
She was like a hummingbird, always flighty and in movement, but my mother’s eyes were glued to the screen this time…
Left Home Torn
“Each fall the sharp-eyed gannets arrived in long lines, plunging from the sky and learning how to swallow underwater.”
The Last of Something
“He kept digging. The sound of the shovel reverberating off the rocks as if inside a sepulcher.”
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A Bed as a Nest
Aching claws and depression and addiction so deep, she sometimes just wants to sleep in her bed forever.