I had a conversation with Luci Shaw on the phone sometime shortly after my first wife, Denise died. I told her I was thinking about writing my way through loss and grief with letters and poems. She encouraged me to embark on the journey assuring me through patience and grit and intense attention to the realities of living and dying the words would come and my heart would heal.
Luci died on December 1, 2025 at the age of 96. Just a few days before I had listened to her read in an audiobook her last collection of poems “Angels Everywhere”. Like Sarah of old she laughed at times with childlike wonder as she read poems pregnant with revelatory messages from somewhere beyond, still surprised by life and the power of a poem.
