Poetry

While I was writing my first poem about grieving, I really did feel as if my head was shrinking. When they tell me you are dead, my skull will shrink, my eyes will burn. I’ll try to moan but my … Continue

At my sister’s funeral in 1998, I tried to help my niece by giving her a book of poems related to grieving.  I don’t know if the poems helped her, but I found that several of them put words to … Continue