Stories tagged mortality

The Cold Black Sea

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Where are the warm isles of emerald waters and sugar sand, where a depleted bag of tricks may be refilled?

A Ship of Bones

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Make paddles of his hands Use his skull to bail Rig his thigh bones for a mast And his skin to make a sail

Passing the Last Buoy

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I am stunned that you’re gone here one moment, vanished the next leaving only profound stillness in all the spaces and moments you used to be

WE NEVER

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No news spreads faster than news of a death. Word of the death of a child can be heard simultaneously in a thousand places. . . the word spread by telephone, in back yards from clothesline to clothesline, with whispers in grocery stores, in the looks on faces stunned into…

The Secret Life of Storms

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Oyster

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"Maybe…" he began searching for some comforting wisdom. "Maybe it's like this. Husbands live for their wives. Mothers live for their children. And children...well...until they're husbands or wives, they live for themselves."

The Inheritance of Man

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And in the night the wild dogs bayed and snarled and rooted out your father’s corpse. The carcass hauled across the moonlit field while you stood waist deep in the grasses.

Secret Life of Storms

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Someday, the Grim Reaper, wrapped in hooded cowl, the thorny stem of a red rose clenched between his teeth, will climb up the garden trellis to my bedroom window

To the man standing at the grave of a loved one as I drive past the cemetery

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I can only say I’m glad/ it’s not me,

This Horse

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But this horse, he was magic... I buried him where he fell.

Death

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fate is an illusion we use to ease the terror of our mortality

Mortality

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But I can't help it./I am alive./Therefore, I die over/and over again/over nothing.