grief card 41

---art by Julia Terry, prompt by National Hospice Cooperative, Simple Grief Prompts for Children (and Adults)

I feel relieved that

            infants can be made up of up to 85% water...

I'm learning to

            break the water of Christmas...

I'm letting go of

            the olive shoot in my beak...

Three people who understand my grief are

            the one east of Eden,

            the swallowed prophet,

            the one who weeps...

I hope

            in the gifts of these magi...

In order to heal, I need

            gills, fins, and scales...

I comfort myself by

            swimming in the belly of the night...

At night I think about

            how water cannot be watered down...

I secretly

            am a pillar of salt...

I feel the loss mostly when

            I thirst...

When I'm alone,

            I miss...

I look forward to

            hosting glistening light...

The loss has changed the way

            morning arrives, inconsolably glorious.