An injured merlin opens the door to the way in which grief and joy are so bewilderingly intertwined in our hearts. BY DEREK FURR
Tag: sorrow
Joy Sullivan – Sister
Joy Sullivan's poem on the lived sense of healing while being held in another person's deep, loving attention.
Ross Gay – Sorrow is Not My Name
Ross Gay's ode to awakening to sweetness, written after Gwendolyn Brooks.
Siddhi Soman – Nurture
Poet Siddhi Soman escorts readers to her childhood in rural India, evoking sorrow about what's been left to decay with her poem "Nurture".
Christine Andersen – Breaking the Rules
Christine Andersen's "Breaking the Rules" reveals the release and healing to be found blooming and flowing in the wild places of the earth.
Regina Dilgen – Meditation on Thomas Merton’s Hermitage
Regina Dilgen's exquisite "Meditation on Thomas Merton's Hermitage" imagines American monastic Thomas Merton worn by grief and inspired to write.
The Expression of a Better World – Anaïs Nin on Transience and the Painful, Familiar Beauty of Music
Anaïs Nin on music, mortality, and what it is to glimpse a joyful vision of a land from which we came and which we have forgotten.