Tag: loss

• The Mourning Doves

  All afternoon I listened to the Mourning Doves coo, this is what they told me:  “Now Button, we know you wanted a family. You’re a lone wolf now but that isn’t how you came in, not entirely anyway. You have always had a touch of anomaly to you- a little Moses in the basket grows…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  October 2, 2025

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  adoption, art, dear button, family, foster care, grief, life, loss, love, nature, poem, poetry, writing

• the Scarf 

  begins a vacant sweater  empty, inherited wool   itchy and unbecoming  easily caught up,  I tangle   and   hang   by each thread  pilled and snagging  on every pattern  every thorn  I have.    the threads expose my inaptitude  bring light and shadow to my weakest equilibriums.  I find (in time)  a pencil eraser worth   of footing…

  stephaniesantosgrant

  March 4, 2025

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  adoption, art, family, grief, loss, love, poem, poetry, scars, sweater, the scarf, 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