The final months of Patrick’s life
my mother tried to make me eat. Enticed
with plates of homemade pasta, green pesto,
whole wheat rolls yeasty and
warm in the centre,
peanut butter on salted crackers,
coconut curry, and once,
a whole chocolate cheesecake
with raspberry drizzle.
Cara-Lyn Morgan lives and works in Mississauga, Ontario. Her first book-length collection of poems, What Became My Grieving Ceremony, was released by Thistledown Press in 2014. It explores planes of grief ranging from the specific loss of an individual to the wider, cultural grieving associated with the loss of family stories and cultural identity.
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