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Nepantla

By: Molly Senecal December 1, 2020December 1, 2020

Poetry and Prosenepantla, poetry2 Comments

There is so much space between those two words – she died – how is it that the entire universe can be contained within that slip of space?

Too

By: Molly Senecal April 11, 2020April 11, 2020

Poetry and Prosebody image, grief, suicide4 Comments

Three letters with the power to destroy, to annihilate, to burn everything down. Too These three letters can throw the scale off balance, topple the house of cards, bring the whole damn thing down. You shake your head; I see you disagree with me. Bear with me, stay with me for a moment. Let me…

A Wish For Next Year

By: Molly Senecal December 30, 2019December 30, 2019

Poetry and Prose, Uncategorizedchild loss, grief, holidays with loss, new year without my child, suicideLeave a Comment

I wish for the impossible, for the faraway lifetime that ended years ago. I wish that the earth, soft with winter rain, would feel your feet — wide and solid — walk again through our garden. And that you would gather winter squash as you did before. I wish for one more brightly-lit dinner around…

A Most Terrible Moment

By: Molly Senecal October 12, 2019July 27, 2020

Poetry and Prosesuicide8 Comments

A most terrible moment I was putting on my running shoes on a November morning. I received a text with impossible words. Eve is dead. This is followed by, This is all on you. eveisdead.eveisdead.eveisdead. This reverberates in my head. I am not able to make sense of the words – they run into each…