Tag: loss
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Prayer
for Rachel Woodard Grey as the in-between of everythingnever meant to be understood—your eyes had a wayof taking the weight of the dayfrom my shoulders; when they could not, I found in themsuch forgiveness for my defeat. Heartfully, I always listenedwhen your wisdom asked for my attention— our words, sparse enough,were generally tradedwith playful…
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Passing
Grief wrapped around me last night, reminding me of the hardest ache I’ve learned to live with. I curled into the bend of the couch, recalling silly things and finding solace in the way the night moves. Loss has lent itself to our family in the same season it visited last; the evening makes the…
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Olene’s Elegy
Oh January, you cannot bury the beauty of the worth born into your care, more than many years ago. End all you like, but your last day will be celebrated evermore and everafter the end of September attempts to steal your glory. You see, hearts know nothing of calendars or finality. February will follow you…
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Airing
I can hear the television blaring and I just want silence or chaos or maybe just a cup of coffee; the kind you’d tell me to go make a fresh pot of when I would drop by, without knocking, and without an invitation to sit in that chair, the one with the not-hardly but probably-once-was…
Rachel Nix 