When the Bough Breaks - Poems

In these poems Diane Mintz struggles to restore herself to life after the death of her son. Grief is the other side of love and no amount of will can forestall its cascade of exquisite pain. Through the process of writing these poems, allowing grief to take its toll, slowly she begins to feel the pulse of life again.

From Ode to Life

I stay alive for the children - the newborns,

the adolescents, the teenagers, the lost and the

searching, the groping and the yearning - who will

inherit our gor...