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September 16, 2021 by Amber

I never learn. People say “you’ve got a piece of my heart” to each other, but I can’t love like that. My love is blazing, not warm, not tepid. It’s like I grow an entire organ full of sunshine every time and when the possessor goes, that piece of me will be raining forever. I […]

Posted in Poetry | Tagged bereavement, caring, grief, loss, love, missing, mourning, water bearer

zephyr

November 2, 2020 by Amber

a chasm blown into my chestin the shape and size of a feline silhouettenot at the end, when she was small, but at her glorious prime an empty stretch from sternum to gutdrafts swish through, sending occasional howls up the esophaguswhooshes that whisper I miss you I watched your silvers turn to goldnot how most […]

Posted in Poetry | Tagged cats, death, grief, loss, mourning, pets, Rebel and a liberator, What a night to fly my kite on

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“What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?”
-MLKJ, Strength to Love

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