On Healing: Grief and the Passage of Time (+ journal prompts)

Dear Friends, When I was reading my poems at a poetry reading event, early on in my grief journey, a woman asked during the Q & A, “Does it get better?” She had recently lost her twenty-three-year-old son to a drug overdose. “Do you ever feel like writing poems about your dead son just keeps dredging up the loss and pain? Do you write poems about getting through it?” The event also featured two other women who had also lost children. We had each given a brief introduction about our loss and...