Current Location: Heaven I like that I know exactly where you are. I think you and my mom hang out and do weird things together. That pair of pigeons crapping on my deck are suspect. Those ...
The Death Certificate looks like our marriage certificate except our union is split, cleaved from me. I’m choiceless. Onset to death 2.5 hours Treatment given from onset to death 2.5 hours Paramedics arrived at 7:03am Pronounced ...
Which Bone I placed each urn and box on the white towel you used for your last shower before I lost you. I used a flat paddle spoon to scoop your ashes into each one for Your Father ...
Ash I know what you think – that it would be dark like ash from a campground, from a cigarette you shouldn’t be smoking. But it’s not a house fire. It’s matter that cannot be created nor destroyed. ...
Saltine Crackers by Amanda Latrenta Crane Women feed other women in deep grief because we forget basic needs like Food. Water. Sleep. I can’t remember if I drank the cranberry juice before or after they declared him dead ...
Lucky Let’s just say it. You are the lucky one, Ed. Dying is the answer to all of it. Life is a constant drum occluding the lyrics. When you die, you have flexible hours. You ...
The In-Between The machines kept you in the in-between. You weren’t really alive, but you weren’t officially dead. I remained in that wild space for as long as I possibly could. I lived in that holy, ...
Sometimes I feel like I am not doing enough as a widow because others create foundations, charities, races, and memorials to honor their lost spouses. But I have learned we all deal with grief in different ways, and none of ...