Relationships that defy boundaries: Erika Michael's 'Entanglement' is an ode to her late husband and a poem about love after death.
Tag: Death
Issa – This Dewdrop World
Written shortly after the death of his daughter, Issa's haiku touches deeply on the heart of the human condition.
Stuart Gunter – The Wind Telephone
Stuart Gunter's poem, The Wind Telephone, engages with one of the more poignant symbols of the thousands of deaths following the 2011 tsunami in Japan.
Three-Pack as Another Name for Beauty
BY JOCELYN ULEVICUS An errand for her dying mother takes a daughter shopping for underwear.
Philip Larkin – The Mower
Philip Larkin's simple and heartbreaking poem about how to take care of each other and look out for one another.
Tracy Ahrens – Thicket of Memories
'We all age. We all die. We all should keep trying to rise to the sunlight. Saplings will learn from this determined climb.'
Embodying Grief – A Conversation with Liz Tichenor
Author and priest Liz Tichenor talks about her book The Night Lake, about dealing with loss and what the topography of grief looks like after seven years.
On the Anxiety of Non-Being
Theologian Paul Tillich on the interplay of anxiety and fear and how they feed in to one another at the very foundation of the human mind.
A.R. Ammons – Play
The first lines of A.R. Ammons Play are an exaltation of the freedom contained within demise and a call to 'yearn too high' and 'drill imagination through necessity.'
The Difficulty of Looking at Your Own Face
Ruth Ozeki on aging, facing up to oneself and one's appearance, and the Buddhist practice of contemplating death and decomposition.