change Archives - The Dewdrop

Chinese-American poet Shaomei Yu reflects on loss and transition with Zen-like sparseness in her poem "The Closed Door".

Francis Weeks – Unfinished

In five brief lines, Francis Weeks' "Unfinished" has encompassed life, death, and the endless continuation of life.

An injured merlin opens the door to the way in which grief and joy are so bewilderingly intertwined in our hearts. BY DEREK FURR

Written when she was living in Key West in the 1930s and 40s, Bishop was inspired by the uneasy beauty of the tropical storms there.

Witness how endings give way to change through the serpentine form of Erik Manuel Soto's "Séance Under a Lunar Eclipse".

True presence demands attention beyond the self, and a reckoning with the vastness of the other lives that shape our world. BY DEREK FURR

Existence is a state of constant flux, as is what it means to be sacred. patricia a. heisser métoyer displays this in her epic "Mastodon".

Change drives our lives forward; our emotions fuel the trip. BY JULIA ROBINSON SHIMIZU

The Roman Emperor and philosopher on mortality, change, nature and the importance of paying attention to the small and beautiful details.

Ellen Girarardeau Kempler's "Jet Lag" places us in the rugged Arizona desert and takes us back into the furthest expanses of geologic time.