Part I: Thinking the Unthinkable

Thinking the Unthinkable  ·   15
Paper-Cut  ·   16
The Blessing of Children—1  ·   17
If Your Eyes  ·   18
Soul  ·   20
From Double-Tree to Single-Tree  ·   21
Good Friday  ·   23
Luminous  ·   24
If  ·   26
Snow  ·   27
Buffalo Don’t Care  ·   28

Part II: Guinea Pig

Apparently  ·   31
This Month  ·   32
Guinea Pig  ·   34
Peace With Honor  ·   35
Frontier  ·   37
Every Stride  ·   38
How We Survive  ·   39
Sisters’ Hands  ·   40
A Clinical Trial Opens Up on the Road to Hospice  ·   41
If Life Were Like Touch Football  ·   42
Hope  ·   44
Contrast  ·   45
Recovered from Chemo, Waiting for Prognosis  ·   47
Borrowed Time  ·   48
Hope The Thing With Feathers  ·   49
Solo  ·   51
How I Survive  ·   52
Daffodil  ·   54
Letter  ·   55
Walk  ·   56
The Blessing of Children—2  ·   57
The Blessing of Children—3  ·   58

Part III: Let Morning Come

Crossing the Bar  ·   61
Coma  ·   62
Homeward  ·   63
Breath  ·   64
Let Morning Come  ·   65
What I Hated Most  ·   67
Comfort  ·   68
Almost Fifty  ·   69
Fall  ·   70
Untitled  ·   71
Family Reunion  ·   72
Circle  ·   73
One Foot  ·   74
Blessing  ·   75
Grief—1  ·   76
Grief—2  ·   77
No Steroids, No Doctors, No Terminal Diagnosis  ·   78
Because  ·   79
And  ·   80
Through a Glass Darkly  ·   82
Grief—3  ·   83
Empty Nest  ·   84
Window  ·   86
October  ·   87
Spanning the Distance  ·   88
Turning the Page  ·   89
Gratitude  ·   90
Joy  ·   91
Psalm 8  ·   92
Caterpillar  ·   93

The Author    95