Trauma, Loss, and Grief Poetry

The Afternoon of My Father's Death

For Want of a Ritual: An Elegy for My Father

Ode to Fezzi the Cat

Ode to Urns

Plowing the Snow

Recalling the Dead

Strepitus

FLOODING THE HOLEY WHOLE

This collection of poems struggles to allow hope, resolution, and wholeness to flood the gaping hole grief leaves in our lives by examining a widow's wandering through the desolation of her fairly-young husband suddenly dying in the midst of an age-old, unfinished argument that had led to her serious consideration of divorce. But before divorce could happen, death intervened. Now she still keeps trying to finish their argument in the midst of a grief that's . . . complicated.