White on white aligned as one rows and rows with all names carved in between.   Each footstep leads to another tear another flower another “thank you.”   So much is said in the silence.   I hear your name for what feels like the thousandth time.   Although now, it is different.   […]

The gravel crunches beneath my feet as I walk up to Dana’s bench and feel my heart fall.   She was then the age of my sister now, only three years old, on a plane never arriving at her destination.   The age of my sister– can’t read, can’t write, can’t even ride a bike. […]

  Golden rays of sunshine filter through green leaves, lazily dancing in the warm spring breeze. Bird chirps suddenly quiet; a sharp crack of a seven shot volley cuts through the otherwise peaceful cemetery. Two more cracks make it twenty-one shots. Another person is being swallowed by this sea of stone and earth I’m sitting […]

Endless headstones stretch out in all directions, names of shadow etched in the pure white. Flawless rows of thousands sit atop freshly cut grass, each with a message. A light breeze passes through, carrying the sound of gunfire twenty-one times. In the distance, a mother breaks into tears, her loss inexplicable. Yet she stands, a […]