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Nightstand Journal

Endlessnesses

2025 April 26th2019 January 26th

My grief is like a magician’s endless scarf — the more I let out the more there is.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, crying, grief, letting go, melancholy, mind, quotes, terri guillemets

Shadows long after light is gone

2025 April 23rd2020 December 27th

end of life decisions
seep grieving guilt
into every crack
of broken hearts—
life is the always
ultimate sacredness
and to play god
feels sacrilegious—
even the right decision
reverberates as wrong

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, death, decisions, guilt, poems, terri guillemets

Chatterbox

2025 April 18th1996 May 22nd

Prose is poetry that can’t stop talking.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, poetry: about, quotes, terri guillemets, writing

Sleepy

2025 April 28th2018 April 8th

sunday afternoon
drowsiness fell off a cliff
landing in a nap

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, afternoon, poems, senryu, sleep, terri guillemets

Personal injury

2025 April 29th2016 March 13th

Sometimes a relationship can hobble along for years with an injured leg of friendship or a broken wing of love.

Terri Guillemets

Categories Nightstand Journal Tags -all posts-, quotes, relationships, terri guillemets
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