Looking for Disappearance

Loss figures into our lives in a wide arc: change of seasons, migration, coming of age, physical and emotional changes, death of a loved one, loss of a sense of safety. Each shift has effects we recognize, resist, must learn to bear or cherish or be defeated by. These poems muse over what triggers memories, remind us of nature's role in life's balance, catalogue the random ties between past and present that weave our lives into whole cloth.