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“Departure, though expected was a shock.
Death came like thunder, shattering my rock.”
Even when the death of a loved one is long anticipated, the impact of that loss is no less crushing.
When Colin Stern’s beloved wife Ann finally succumbed to dementia, his life was thrown into turmoil. To help himself through profound grief, he turned to poetry.
A Catafalque for Ann is a moving and thoughtful collection of poems that charts the author’s journey into darkness until healing begins. A eulogy of many parts, it charts the progression of his loss from Ann’s slow and inextricable decline to her passing, and from the subsequent tsunami of grief to eventual acceptance and reemergence of hope.
Deeply personal yet universal, these heartfelt verses will console anyone who has suffered the loss of a partner, resonating in shared emotions and making clear that even in the midst of our grief we are never alone.
