Twice each year the absence digs a deeper hole. The day of your birth. The day of your death. What I should have said. What I should have done, but did not.
But time has other sides. Ends also have beginnings, middles. I remember seasons that soared so high they grew wings. And what remains from the center still holds my hand.
downy woodpecker
on the tree trunk beside me–
spirals, holding on
For dVerse, where Frank has given us the subject of memory.
K. 
This is beyond.
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Thanks David. I know you understand.
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👍🏻
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❤ "what remains from the center still holds" and I think we carry it through eternity. it makes me yearn for reincarnation
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Thanks Jade. I agree, although it’s taken me time to see it.
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The combination of my favourite Cyndi Lauper song and your poignant haibun made me cry, Kerfe. I’m so sorry for your loss and the memory of it, and humbled by your stoicism.
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Thank you Kim. Cyndi Lauper is so underrated. She really touches an emotional chord here that echoes my own feelings.
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Wonderful memories, Kerfe, really well written. 👍🏼🙂✌🏼 dig the haiku too!
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Thanks Rob.
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So poignant. Beautifully written, Kerfe.
I love this:
“Ends also have beginnings, middles. I remember seasons that soared so high they grew wings. And what remains from the center still holds my hand.”
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Thanks Merril. Time doesn’t heal, but sometimes it brings some clarity I think.
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I think it can.
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Ah yes, they are so mixed emotionally, our memories of our loved ones who have died! Such a journey we make, traversing those feelings! You’ve expressed it beautifully.
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Thanks Rosemary.
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Anchored by nature. The comfort of the ‘in-between’. Powerful.
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Thanks Susan.
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Kerfe this is beautiful. I am touched by your reminiscence and my own – thank you for the perspective!
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Thanks Muri. Perspective is exactly what is needed.
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Kerfe, this is amazing! ❤️
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Thanks Colleen. Frank gave us a good prompt.
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Yes, so beautifully put. The middle, when we were running alongside is what’s important, the ending tends to gather all the importance around itself.
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Thanks Jane. I’m only just seeing how the end can overwhelm all that came before. But the center is where the heart is.
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Our memory gets very selective, and it’s easy to let the dramatic memories wipe out the rest.
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Absolutely beautiful.
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Thank you!
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I’m in tears.
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Very poignant Kerfe and it touched me greatly as it will most people I feel, who have lost someone close ❤️
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Thanks Angela.
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So utterly touching those two days and all inbetween… love it.
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Thanks Bjorn.
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Oh my, Kerfe, this is very touching.
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Thanks Robbie. I think it takes awhile to get perspective on things sometimes.
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