Modern Psalms

<p>Grief throws one down into a pit that seems to have no exit. Emotions—violent emotions of loss loneliness and grief—assault one. Sometimes one can only endure them and cry no sob. Sometimes one can laugh at them through one’s tears. That’s what these poems are about: laugh cry endure go on to the next day and the next attack of grief. The only hope is hope itself—raw naked confusing terrifying and ultimately supportive. Read cry laugh cry and go on living. So it is.</p>