Postlude to the End of

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Composed over a two-month period between his mother's decision to enter hospice and the burial of her ashes </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Postlude to the End of</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is conceptually simply a diary of mourning. Through its composition with exploded lines and fractured syntax this collection interiorizes into a visual and verbal hyperventilation of emotion. While mourning the loss of a parent may be a familiar theme rather than just elegize through descriptive and emotional language this collection attempts to replicate the chaotic synaptic and physiological processes of coping with deep loss.</span></p><p><br></p>