Creative Writer. Essayist. Memoirist.
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Given Time:
A Mother-Daughter Cancer Memoir
Given Time:
A Mother-Daughter Cancer Memoir
This book, written in call-and-response style, explores Christine's mother’s cancer journey, and her own. As Vivian Shipley says: “Given Time asks a question without an answer: How can you shield your heart? What will endure, like this powerful collection of poems, is the will to live, to find joy that beats within each human heart."
WHAT'S INSIDE
What I Never Wanted
(from Given Time)
What I Never Wanted
(from Given Time)
Ashes in a vase, September mourning,
distant calls of loons, a fractured sky.
sullen earth mounded under dogwood,
leaves burned hot as afterthoughts.
afternoon of unbelief, wall of windowpanes,
hangers in the closet, askew and bare,
fragile chattering, a sound like empty acorns,
dried nutmeats, the harvest passed.
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