Marjorie A. Buettner...

Sinking in

Unhinged by some obscure emotion my daughter catches me in a state of loss--falling, failing like a shooting star in a black sky. There are these dark nights of the soul, I tell myself, but I would have never guessed that after five years it has finally sunk in . . .

never never to see you again

WHCHaibun 2008-07-22