If you had asked me
over fifty years ago
if life without you
would be possible,
only reply I had then
was “impossible”.
Suddenly it’s been
nineteen long years without you,
and constant yearning.
I have slowly found
life is not impossible,
unfathomable.

Me and Grandma Moody…just chillin’ back in ’68. Atchison, Kansas. 1968. Photo by Kaye Vessar.
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