After Death's Silence

By Lisowski, Joseph

Book Id: WPLBN0000659862
Format Type: PDF eBook:
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Reproduction Date: 2004

Title:	After Death's Silence
Author:	Lisowski, Joseph
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & thought
Collections:	Authors Community
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Publisher:	The Etext Archive


Citation APA MLA Chicago Lisowski, B. J. (n.d.). After Deaths Silence. Retrieved from https://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Fiction Literature

Summary
Fiction Literature

Excerpt
Excerpt: The flowers are white this year - freesia, lilies - I cannot name them all but I can name my hurt. I cannot heal when each week the wound opens. I go to see you but I need to see without hearing. In sixth grade, when Sister yelled, I slumped back to my desk, deaf to the world and now I must make myself deaf to you. I must substitute words. When you say, I should not be in an institution, I must hear, I should not be in the world because this world is a holding place for dying. I must not hear blame and feel guilt. I must say, I am sorry you are old. Sorry your body is failing, but I cannot go on this trip right now, I cannot be pulled under. I must not hear, I took care of my mother and father and you must, too. I must believe I am taking care of you and this is what I do to care and then say these words, Can you see the three white roses, the freesia and the flowers I cannot name? Do you love the smell, the scent of love I cannot name and you cannot hear?

Table of Contents
contents A Lettter to my Mother Twenty-First Century Flint The Word for Spring Silence Is like a Series of Hyphens Like an Abandoned Bumper Car When an Old Friend I Happened to Meet Sweet Cherries Dominatrix of Pastis Where You Are when I Am Far Away A Meditation on the Secret of Life Thinking Is A Feeling that Passes Directions For