OUR LAST TEXTS, ILLUSTRATED

The texts in black are Mom and the pink ones are Me.
The last one is from her pastor when he was trying to reach me to tell me she'd passed away earlier that morning.
The pictures are of some of her favorite things.

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Nostalgia Haiku

Nostalgia Haiku Pee Wee’s Playhouse song Her smell returns and her laugh We’d watched since show one

Grand Rapids, Michigan by Robin Crane

I am at a mental hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I had never been to this city before. My room is right next to the bay of telephones. I feel sad hearing so many patients start conversations with their friends or family and then so soon say, "Oh, you have to go? Well...goodbye."

Birthday Card Book

IN keeping with the more than usual focus on my mom, who passed away almost a year ago now, here is a book she made me for my 14th birthday.

sweetheart redux

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