The shrill ring of the phone slices through my quiet
and the somber voice on the line roots me to the ground.
“Annie is gone.” His words echo through the wire.
Later, dread in each step,
we approach Glen’s tiny senior’s home,
Identical to those left and right,
the pain is still contained there,
not yet bleeding
through the peach-coloured brick
nor obliterating the [...]
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ANNIE’S TAPESTRY
Posted in POETRY, REFLECTIONS, tagged dealing with death of a friend, grief in the elderly, mourning, the loneliness of the elderly widower on January 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »
JUST LIKE YESTERDAY
Posted in MEMOIR, POETRY, tagged child loss, grief, neonatal death en utero, stillbirth on November 20, 2008 | 5 Comments »
A little girl, soft and delicate,
visited today.
She twisted her curls
and chased my cats.
Her tiny voice tugged
at my resisting heart
and opened the wound left by Emily;
and now, as if it were yesterday,
I cannot sleep.
Years ago,
on warm September nights like this,
I lay awake,
counting kicks and dreaming
of a dark-haired child,
dimpled and velvet-skinned;
of baby giggles
and tiny arms
wrapped tight around [...]
