part 1: (child) When I was a child, my favorite flowers were tulipa tardas, these tiny pale yellow star-shaped blossoms. In the spring, they are the first to bloom and the first to die,Continue reading
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The Anatomy of a Loss
Last November, the final petal curled its softness into bone (and my mouth tasted bruised for weeks). Death has a name that sounds like silk sliding over the ground, but she is not so soft:Continue reading