Claire Wahmanholm

Perspective: ‘Deathbed Dream with Extinction List’ by Claire Wahmanholm

Poem’s text: https://poems.com/poem/deathbed-dream-with-extinction-list/

Over the past five months, I have been to too many funerals of too many loved ones. The compounded grief certainly adds up over time, and the subsequent idea of futility is equal parts inviting and ensnaring.

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