IN MEMORIAM

I lost my sister and best friend, Jo, today.

Here we are in the late 1990s.

She was everything to me.

P.E. will be down for a while.

Me on the left, and Jo

 

This is the Hour of Lead – 

Remembered, if outlived, 

As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow – 

First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go – 

--Emily Dickenson

The birds they sang At the break of day 

Start again I heard them say 

Don't dwell on what has passed away 

Or what is yet to be 

Ah, the wars they will be fought again 

The holy dove, she will be caught again 

Bought and sold, and bought again 

The dove is never free 

Ring the bells that still can ring 

Forget your perfect offering 

There is a crack, a crack in everything 

That's how the light gets in  

--Leonard Cohen