Poems in memoriam

Excerpt

And so we return again to the mountains

Where our hearts have been eaten alive

engulfed in sorrow

laid bare

and fluttered in love.

Where we have run and climbed and sped through snow

jumped into creeks

scratched memories stone on stone

skin on skin

fossils and promises

we were here and will return again.

To the place where you climbed with him

where he once got lost

where she wouldn’t go

where the dark shadows of your stolen mother

linger and lurch.

Where Thanksgiving can be declared

curls set

families made and remade

loves lost

hearts ache.

I wish you peace my love

as you return again to the mountains

one more mother to put to rest

and another mother

one you have made

will hold you in love.