Tag: Dying Parent

• When A Mother Dies

  We Strip the Careworn Dead Their Mortal Coil We lave their toiled hands, Their knobby feet, Their centers and extremes. We lay them flat In underground and secret passageways to Heaven’s scroll-worked gates. We bless and praise them in our tears. We brush the wood encasement with Messages posting to God above Even as We […]

  cborsello

  May 7, 2017

  Poems

  Death, Dying Parent, Loss, transition