Learning a New Way to Listen

<p>Learning a New Way to Listen Gerry Grubbs new book deals with grief and its aftermath. How grief grows out of love is love and how grief yields a greater love. Leading to the realization that nothing is ever lost.</p><p><br></p><p>Sample poem:</p><p> </p><p>BRAIDED</p><p>I watch you braid your mother's hair</p><p>Your hands working like hers</p><p>In the slow rhythm of the work</p><p>And I see how my thoughts of her</p><p>Are braided together the way our hands were</p><p>Or the way our scent was braided together</p><p>With the gardenias at night when</p><p>No thoughts were needed</p><p><br></p><p>Now I am alone with the flowers</p><p>Startlingly white in this darkness</p><p>As if they too were missing her</p>