LET THE POEMS HAVE YOU.

Today, my thoughts drift back to 2017. What a relentlessly difficult year it proved to be. On February 16th, I lost my best friend. Eight days later, on the 24th, I sat through his memorial service, a day later boarded a flight back home, and stepped into a life irrevocably altered.

A flicker of light pierced the heavy air when my eldest daughter, who ha…