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Tag Archives: Loss
Grocery Shopping
I wrench a cart from the stack where they nestle like spoons, and take the route I’ve always taken— up the main aisle, one-eighty degree turn, down the next. Skip the eggs (I still have half a dozen in the … Continue reading
Measure of Love
In the instant you collapsed, I knew you’d left me, but your heart kept pumping, lungs struggling for breath, body flat out, length six feet one, weight a hundred and thirty-five pounds. In the hospital, they gave you a thirty-two-ounce … Continue reading
Sweet Bird Knows Me
Long before she died worms worked their way through my mother’s heart: worms of doubt, guilt, loss. My revelation about my mother not facing my brother’s death, is that she was four years old when the spanish influenza swept through … Continue reading
Primal Separation
The older I get, the more I find that my fears have shifted. I am not apprehensive or anxious over my own death — nor am I blithely reconciled to it either — but I recognize that the ultimate fear … Continue reading
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Tagged Death, Loss, Love. Fear, Mortality, Musings, Separation
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