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Birthdays of the Dead
I wrote this post five years ago, while leaning on one of many pairs of crutches (the coolest among them, with built-in reflectors) I accrued as I quite literally fell to pieces as a half-decade younger widow. Back then I … Continue reading
Vanished Air
. . . you are much more than simply dead/ I am a dish for your ashes / I am a fist for your vanished air…. … Continue reading
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Tagged Boston, cancer, Garden of Hope, Garden of Peace, grief, hope, pancreatic cancer
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Now Face West
This is the tenth Father’s Day that has dawned for my children without their father here with them. This year, they all are also separated from each other, occupying different spaces on two continents. Seven years have passed since we … Continue reading
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Tagged camel safaris, chaos, disorder, Father's Day, fatherhood, grief, Iceland, India, memory, motherhood, Northern Ireland, pandemic, seasons, spillover, theoretical physics, zoonoses
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Full Fathom
I did first ask if it was too soon. In this case, to bowdlerize the first sentence of Love in the Time of Cholera: “It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the run on spices … Continue reading
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Tagged Argentinian mistress, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, grief, José Saramago’s Death with Interruptions, kiran desai, Louis Untermeyer, love, One Hundred Years of Solitude, pandemic, positive and negative space, Shakespeare, Smoots and measures, social distance, solitude, The Inheritance of Loss, The Tempest, The Tempest Act 1 Scene 2, violet envelopes
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