After the End: Unwrapping Grief
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781733115445
Publisher: Just Keep Walking Press
Published: Dec 15 2025
Pages: 82
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
My daughter died suddenly in 2023, at age fifty-three, of a brain hemorrhage. I scattered some of her ashes in Lassen Volcanic National Park, a place I had backpacked into and birded for forty years-my daughter had been there with me-that burned in 2021. Since my daughter's death, I have felt, at times, that too much of what I loved was gone. The psychologists now say the last stage of grief is not acceptance, but meaning. I'm still working on it.
tires checked
coolers, tents, flashlights
check, check, check
and the box of ashes . . .
her last camping trip
in the photo
chiaroscuro trees and shadows
trying to imagine
shades of green
before the fire
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