Tagged: goodbye
scenes from letting go –
scenes from letting go –
learning to lose people without
a chance to say goodbye
.
20240219:0501
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a week before our
a week before our
arrival, you departed
this earth, waved goodbye
from our kitchen table, taking
a swing at our small tea bag dish
.
20231110:2043
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at the airport, good-
at the airport, good-
bye is an exercise we
practice and practice –
at the terminal, at the
gate, on the lonely walk home
.
20230411:2019
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september arrives
september arrives
with the monarch butterflies,
five generations
all at once waving hello
and goodbye in our backyard
.
20210905:2245
y
we will gather at
we will gather at
least seven times to pay our
respects, say goodbye –
for both the dead and the living,
loss takes longer to sink in
.
20210819:1747
y
when we said goodbye
when we said goodbye
to the Toona sinensis
and the Hibiscus
syriacus this afternoon,
no one came to pay their respects
.
20210622:1921
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it doesn’t have to
it doesn’t have to
make sense to be beautiful –
as with most goodbyes
.
20161227:1710
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we arrive at the
we arrive at the
corner, and it’s a surprise –
hello, goodbye, stay
.
20141028:0856
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we can call it an
she had fantasized
she had fantasized
letting go, but always with
more resolution
.
20130930:0823
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