Silhouettes

By Samantha Terrell

Silhouettes is an eChapbook on bereavement and moving forward past a loss. It features poetry for insight and reflection during or after a season of grieving.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Samantha Terrell
• Release date: Feb 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9780463067581

Book preview

BOOKENDS

I’m still

Filling

Notebook pages,

Telling

My story

Best I can, for posterity, or the ages.

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Time for a break

To unpack

A few boxes

Stashed

In the guestroom

Closet.

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I find old letters, photos,

Mementoes;

Items

I chose

To participate

In life’s forward momentum.

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Here, a shirt of my father’s

Hangs

Waiting for someone

To grow into; our babies’

Outgrown things crowd the other side

Of this space, borrowed from

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Future guests, with whom

We’ll tell stories,

Discuss children,

Priorities,

Parents:

Bookends.

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MIRROR IMAGES

It goes without saying,

Mending broken mirrors

Is an exercise in vanity. But what exactly

Would constitute a fix,