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that i would do better

May 31, 2026May 10, 2020 by bonesnsnow

if you could only come here
and die again,

Categories poetry Tags family, humanity, life, mother, mothers day, parents, photos, poems, poetry, prayer, relationships, women 2 Comments

chilidish things

June 1, 2026July 11, 2015 by bonesnsnow
tombstone, child's grave

Another in the series of “where a poem comes from.” I was walking in a bookstore when the phrase, “we always believed that she could fly” came into my mind, loudly. That night, a poem arose. The details are from my mother’s memorial….

Categories photography, poetry Tags age, Aging, angels, birds, children, death, flight, graves, monotone, mother, photography, photos, redwing blackbirds 7 Comments

maybe it began

June 1, 2026January 2, 2014 by bonesnsnow

  maybe it began   maybe it began as a small room in a small house, a blue spread on a bed, a wooden dresser a window, a rug on a wooden floor. home, the place of origin, a place to be from — going out and coming back and going out again. did such … Read more

Categories poetry Tags acceptance, home, house, mother, poetry Leave a comment
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