a hospice erasure
Connor Simons
from Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience – Barbara Karnes
[Accessibility Text for Screen Readers. Line breaks are preserved.]
"1. Giving away belongings and
making funeral plans."
pain c-
ow-
s
a person
love in an
arc
"2. Withdrawal."
The
cost
is g-
reat
Know
This
"3. Vision-like experiences."
The eye se-
es
a
c-
ol-
D
f-
lam-
e "Yes, these
things happen".
"4. Restlessness."
i
need
s-
t-
or-
ie-
s music
to let go
"5. Unusual communication with or
withdrawing from others."
love
be-
coMe-
s a
fr-
a-
il
yelp
"6. They say goodbye."
oh
Swee-
t lor-
d l-
et her
go
CONNOR L. SIMONS is a queer poet and translator based in the Twin Cities. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Minnesota, where he worked as Poetry Editor for the Great River Review. His work has most recently appeared in the Colorado Review, Bookends Review, Poetry Northwest, and is forthcoming in the Brooklyn Review, Bennington Review, and Breakwater Review. He was recently named an Artist in Residence for Summer 2021 at the Anderson Art Center in Red Wing, Minnesota.
Header art: "Evening Snow" by Derrick Breidenthal.