“Moonlight Savings Time”
I awaken to moonlight– it is that particular slant of silver that lights up the front yard at 3 AM. What really has awakened me is my husband’s breathing. It is labored like he has just run up a...
View Article“Let’s Just Hold Hands”
They have been married for 52 years. Now she is in rehab on a feeding tube, a phantom of her former self, so frail. And he is hail for her. He says to her: “Let’s not talk about the past. Let’s not...
View ArticleThe Line is Dead
She’s finally gone after fighting for life for 6 months of painful half-life and multiple causes of death. * Gone is my last link with Grandma and Grandpa and happy days in Larchmont,...
View ArticleTwo Lips of Forever Love
He didn’t “get it, the “loss thing,” when my aunt died mid-April, and I lost my second mother. Didn’t “get it” when I lost my first. This was not the only time he was lost in oblivion and puzzled by...
View ArticleAlone Together
You stand before me in total vulnerability openness spread across your face how can I resist I am powerless before such love before your open heart and yet you have to go live life in your world after...
View ArticleTyranny of Mind
4AM and you a warm lump under the covers of Morpheus Me wide awake eyes moist with tears I write lest I forget the vulnerability of you yesterday lest one day you ARE no longer a day of dread so...
View ArticleSadhguru’s Cure for a Spiritual Lobotomy
Another invisible illness silently sapping quality of life vertigo and acute nausea now join constant migraines and, with Aspergers, I am more of a recluse than ever But my beloved stands by me A few...
View ArticleIt’s 4 AM and I Miss You
(Please don’t eat my children) It’s 4:27… 4:28… 4:29 AM and I miss you I hope to God you’ll awaken and bring me coffee and tell me something funny and I will laugh and you will be so pleased to see...
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