Tag: life

• EXCLAMATION POINTS

  when I spray the 10-in-1 hair perfector  on my dry(but-not-yet-splitting)ends  the miracle spray smells like  my adoptive sister Rachel  smelled for most of 1989  it feels strange then, in 2025  to miss and remember the smell  of an old black & white perfume bottle   more than a person.  after deciding last year  that I’m not…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  March 13, 2025

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  life, memory, nature, olfactory, poem, poetry, signs of life, writing

• the Iris

  The truth of the poem startled me when I discover it layered up there with the brilliant prose and the heart-aching imagery It feels like an intruder: seated (settled really) in a darkened room of my own making it’s true though there is inherent sadness woven deeply into kindness, isn’t there? It’s the reason I…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  February 2, 2025

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  art, kindness, life, nature, poem, poems, poetry, response poem, sorrow, writing

• cannon heart 

  The line was something about ‘a canyon in her heart’  but I heard cannon heart  and like most things, the more I thought about it  the more it made sense (to me).  (like you maybe) I was born in a hospital   but I came home to live for a short while (at least)  in the three-story…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  January 22, 2025

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  birth, home, life, one cannon square, poetry, war of 1812, writing

• October 21st, 2018 

  There are twelve of us here today.  The “Sacred 12”, you call us.   A couple days later, while waiting for my flight home to Colorado, I’ll text the group-in the thread without you on it- with some reflections from our weekend together and my thanks. In the emotion of it all I will mistakenly flip my…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  October 21, 2024

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  cancer, death, family, friends, friendship, hospital stories, life, loss, love, sisterhood, writing