The Griefness
Naila FrancisPersonal stories and honest, caring support for grieving hearts
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| Issues | 55 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | a month ago |
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Between the dying and living, this love remains
Fifteen years.
Fifteen years gone.
Fifteen years still loved.
Fifteen years still missed.
Fifteen years still grieved.
The number wraps me in disbelief.
Grief has a way of making time stretch and collapse simultaneously, sending us...
Braiding grief into praise and praise into grief
Today is my birthday.
I hadn’t planned to write a post but the Earth, in all of its abundance, summoned me here, as well as these words by Mary Oliver, which I couldn’t help thinking about as I stepped under the blue sky and stood where th...
How do we survive this?
Thor’s Gate at Columcille Megalith Park
I step out of the car, ice cleats slipped over my boots, bundled in so many layers, I laughingly call myself the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man. Part of me can’t believe I’m here, in the single-digit cold...
What I wrote to myself the day after Renee Nicole Good was killed by ICE
It wasn’t a poem, though I read several, including her own, “On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs,” which won the 2020 Academy of American Poets Prize, alongside works by Cornelius Eady and others honoring and processing the brutal shooting of...
A Blessing for the Winter Solstice
To meet the Winter Solstice, gather the dark within you,
claw in your sternum, sea monster’s eye, your own deep slithering grief.
Whatever you have swallowed, cloaked, folded again and again, each crease
a disappointment you long to dis...
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Grief Coach | Death Midwife | Writer | Sparking conversation, offering support & holding space for grief, loss & dying in a death-averse, grief-phobic culture.
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