Evolution Entwined with Love
I like to think this all has meaning, this grand scope of things from the birth of stars to the …
Tag Archives: death
A Deer Screams — Beauty & Brutality at Home and the Hills of Vietnam
The most horrifying sound I’ve ever heard came one night soon after we moved here. A scream of pure terror …
A Friend Meets Death, Full of Curiosity
Our lives are full of curious and mysterious things, and I’m quite certain what came before our birth and after …
To All Those Missing Their Mothers on Mother’s Day
Farewell Letter to My Son She wrote me a letterafter her deathand I remembera kind of happy lightfalling on the …
A New Tenderness Toward This Body
Crossroads by Louise Glück My body, now that we will not be traveling together much longerI begin to feel a …
“More to Me Than Time Allows to Be”
I wrote this years ago, a kind of declaration for a state of being with which I passionately identified, although …
Letters From Beyond the Grave on Memorial Day
While neither of these poems have anything in particular to do with remembering those who have given their lives to …
Wrapped Around Schrodinger’s Cat
That’s where I’ve been these last ten days or so, wrapped around Schrödinger’s cat in that state of unknowing. My …
Mary Oliver, Washed in Light
One of my favorite poets, Mary Oliver, died last week. I do not have the words to tell you how …
13 Ways of Looking at Dying, Just Before, and the Moment After
My mother died seven years ago this month, which is also the month I was born. I wrote a short …
