“In waiting I learn to live with the anticipations of loss—” PoetryHeavenWaitingLossSadExpectedAnticipationJill Alexander EssbaumDesensitizedUsed To It Book:Heaven Source: Heaven
“He is not here. Where did it go, my grief, my grief? Once you loved me on a hillside. I was pretty and tender as silence. Some things I knew well enough: first you love and then you lose. I had no idea there was nothing more.” PoetryHeavenLossGriefSadLost LoveDepressingJill Alexander EssbaumAll There Is Book:Heaven Source: Heaven
“I grieve you as a lover grieves, lingering.” PoetryHeavenLossSadGrievingLoverJill Alexander Essbaum Book:Heaven Source: Heaven
“How far away they seem, each of those nights that I slept with my body curled into the absence of yours,” PoetryHeavenLossSadAbsenceJill Alexander Essbaum Book:Heaven Source: Heaven
