You Were My Death, by Erika Lutzner

You Were My Death, by Erika Lutzner

$12.00

Erika Lutzner  performs the transmutation we long for when we confront a bone-deep loss, peeling open dreams and memories with ruthless, yet generous intensity to create this spare and luminous homage to a husband lost

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I keep your bones in the living room
I gave half to your mother
I wanted to keep them for myself
but I did the right thing
split them down the middle

Erika Lutzner  performs the transmutation we long for when we confront a bone-deep loss, peeling open dreams and memories with the poet’s ruthless, yet generous intensity to create this spare and luminous homage to a husband lost in the World Trade Center.