A Goodbye to Mike

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Written October 4, 2026, two days before my husband Mike's planned death. A goodbye. In two days, October 6th, my husband, Mike Bosworth, will take his death cocktail and leave his life. --------- We sit on the couch, and Mike coughs…

A Goodbye to Nutmeg

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My mother once said something judgmental about, “those people who treat their pets like children.” That was me. I didn’t want children. I wanted goats and Blue Jays. I wanted cats and dogs. Horses and ducks. Deer and chickens. I…

Peace

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This evening, as it was moving into dusk, I saw Mama Mama and Grandma Grandma browsing behind our home. I went to the refrigerator and found the wrinkled apple, past its prime that I had noticed yesterday. I took a knife sliced…
Symbolic image representing intuition and feminine healing

A Season of Grief

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Sometimes, out of nowhere, I burst into tears.   What season is this? This season, where at any given second, grief rises and pulls me under.   There have been other seasons. I don’t know if I am alone in this season.…
Symbolic image representing connection with nature

MamaMama

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I don’t want to cry. But grief is a wrap. It is a place. It is a time. And there is much to grieve now.
Giving Back Grief

A Poem: Giving Back Grief

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I am from a long line of grief From the tears of women Of mothers Of the unmothered Dark concentric stains, decreasing in size Like the vantage point of the horizon, the perspective shift of space and time. I am from me, my…
I didn't know we were flowers

I Did Not Know We Are Flowers

I did not know we are flowers. I didn’t know until after I sobbed most of the afternoon for the tiny body of a mouse.   I was in the garden and noticed the live trap I had put there to catch the voles that were eating my purple-sprouted…
I didn't know we were flowers

Making Amends

To All Those Creatures Who Enriched My Life Recently, I have been donating money monthly to a horse rescue (Colby's Crew Rescue) that buys horses from a slaughter facility, rehabilitates them, and finds them good homes. These horses have been…