A collection of poems written after my mom’s death in December 2021 and my dad’s death in January 2022, not so much exploring my feelings as trying to capture certain aspects of these experiences. I will link more poems as I post them.
- Afterdeath
- Notes on Healing
- She Tells Me, She Tells Me Not
- Upstairs, Downstairs
- Flinch
- From Pink to Blue
- Mourning My Mom
- The Last Laugh
- Interlude
- Not My Dad
- Dad’s Decline
- So Close
- Of Course You Do
- Angel of Mercy
- Aftershock
- Scrapbook
- You Could Say That
- Questions and Answer
- In One Word
- Just Saying
- Cause(s) of Death
- Grief Postponed
- Mournfully
- Filling Out Forms
- What a Friend Told Me
- Tender Memories
- How Can You Know?
- This I Know
- Funeral Reading
- Documented
- Mouthing Off
- A Little Levity
- Inurnment
- Military Honors
- Preparing for Auction
- $urprises
- What Else Didn’t They Tell Us?
- Signs and Wonders
- Spending the Night
- Flashback / Flash Forward
- House Update: A Few Weeks Before Auction
- Something Greater than Paper Clips Here
- House Update: SOLD
- Toiletries
- The New/Old Normal
- Unscripted
- Legacy
- Green Bowl/Yellow Bowl/Red Bowl/Blue
- True Story
- Closure
- Heaven
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