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Light Shining on Copper

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Absence, Death, Friendship, Grief, Longing, Love / July 12, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

I can mostly buy
the whole spiritual thing
that she is neither dead nor gone

or at a perfect time
and to a perfect place

But there is
this hole in a hug
where she used to fit

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Praying to Wind Gods

Audio Recordings, Relationships / tagged Longing, Separation / June 12, 2021 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Sophia; 250-year-old live oak with 70 foot wingspan in our Austin front yard.

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Sandi Hebley on How Fallen AngelsAugust 17, 2025
Indeed!
Nancy Fierstien on Unremember ThatAugust 16, 2025
Gonna be inclined to share this one at my Poets' Tea reading tomorrow afternoon. Thanks, Neil!
Sandi Hebley on Memory Lane JoggingAugust 5, 2025
Lovely!
Sandi Hebley on Dad and Death at WarAugust 4, 2025
😢
Sandi Hebley on One for the AuntiesAugust 3, 2025
Wow!

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