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Death

11pieces on this thread. All topics.

Poem

Moulting

On parting as its own kind of death, and how keenly the loss is felt at first. Poem

this One will live yet

Written alongside The Boy Jumps Ship, narrowed to the Stinger and the Stirring. Library

The rose celebrates by falling apart.

Rumi says just being in a body and sentient is rapture. Just being here is a cause for celebration. And a cause for grief too. Though grief is also a form of joy. The rose celebrates by falling apart. Foil by foil falling to the ground. And the cloud celebrates by weeping. Story

The Soul Phone Won’t Stop Ringing

The Boy paces a hallway that will not let him arrive, between the bedrooms of his family, as the soul's phone rings and rings with news of death. Poem

The Little Man Dancing in My Heart

Perhaps we do not find God so much as make God, a little more with every day we live. Library

The Word grants a stay of execution

“…to God’s least creature is given voice for speech, or for song – a sign that it has found a way; to bind together, and stretch life’s limits, whether an hour or a day.” by Joseph Brodsky Story

The Tale of Two Tomorrows

A fable of the Little Girl, the Old Man and a sycamore seed turning in a glass jar: every life is like a seed, and this is a tale of two tomorrows. Poem

The Death of the Human Situation

Loneliness in the concrete maze of the city, where no-one next door is a neighbour. Poem

My Gallows Star

A rope of light let down from a distant star, and the darkness that both lights it and holds us apart. Poem

Out of the World, Into its Middle

Written in May 2004 for my first-born son Poem

I Am Your Vessel, Not Your Captain

Written for my son on his birthday, on being his vessel and not his captain.

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