Category Archives: Death and living while dying
Kindly turn away
I am going to die. I am not conscious of dying at this moment. What can it mean to these days to remember my death, my dying? I want to converse at that time. I want to not avoid the … Continue reading →
Conversing through these rapids
Seems to me that the fear of death and dying in this culture is at least a fear of talking about them, of conversing through these rapids. :- Doug.
Vocabulary for this dying
There is not a ready vocabulary for this dying. Will I be able to express this with my course-mates? With family? Friends?I can only try. I can only take a breath and see what comes up. :- Doug.
language for no language
One of the things a poet works at for the rest of us is developing a language for things for which we have no language. For instance, death. :- Doug.
Conversation with death
Let us have a conversation with death. :- Doug.
In the dying room
Being in the dying room the task is witnessing. You witness my dying, ask me about what is going on, what I’m thinking with a far away look. I witness to you my thoughts, prayers, wishes, needs, and not having … Continue reading →
Dying with a gift?
What are the dying doing? My answer has been: Living. I thought it profound. It is. But is there a profounder? Can we die purposely, with a gift to those who die after? :- Doug.
Dizzying in dying
Dizzying in dying lost in my spinning head what words to tell and who will tell the ending of my story? :- Doug.
Wrestles us to ground
Major poetry wrestles us to ground To the unwanted ground of our being Twists and turns out our bowels Wrenches and disjoints us Wrests perchance a hint of our real From living days From our dying :- Doug.
Skill-worthy
Dying—the wrestling with dying— is skill-worthy and you worthy of that skill study those who are at least don’t back away don’t run stand in that raging wind for such a poet this work is not difficult it is the … Continue reading →
Living longer: loss of profundity
With drug overdoses and suicides increasing we’ve found ways to shorten our life expectancy after centuries of increases. This might be temporary as we seek ways to make new body parts and renew our organs. Then we might live to … Continue reading →
talking profound
Come spend time talking of death and other profound mysteries of our human heart. :- Doug.
flour egg milk leaven heat
Doing the things that’s the way to be caught when death comes calling nor accomplishing for that guarantees disappointment flour egg milk leaven heat and waiting eating together being by turns :- Doug.
Draw me a look like
For dying patients and their families, the same question as for their doctors and nurses: What does that look like? Especially for the patients and families: What do you want it to look like, and not look like? Draw me … Continue reading →
Permission to die?
What needs to be born in us today, in order for something to have permission to die? :- Doug.
Death could go away
Death could go away by genetics and other biologic advances. Taxes could go away because there would be not much income or ownership of value to tax. (Except maybe those if any outside the commons who controlled the artificial intelligences … Continue reading →
Choice is rest
“I set before you life and death: choose life.” At death-time, the choice is rest. :- Doug.