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Ceaseless Rain

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Ceaseless Rain is a meditation on grief. It is a carnival ride where the floor drops out, it is a ghost apple, it is the bones left in the birdbath by crows. This is where the redemptive power of rain streams down in an eclectic mix of images, revealing the daily routines of a hospice residential home. Written in both free verse and halibun, the poems combine to create an intimate portrait of love and humour at the end-of life journey. This is a collection to hold close to the heart.

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Dorothy Mahoney

Dorothy Mahoney is the author of three poetry collections, Through Painted Skies (Black Moss Press, 1997), Returning to the Point (Black Moss Press, 2001), and Off-Leash (Palimpsest Press, 2016). Her poetry has been included in numerous journals and anthologies, including Detours: An Anthology of Poets from Windsor and Essex County, Erotic Haiku, and Because We Have All Lived Here. A retired teacher, she resides in Windsor, Ontario.

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Vocabulary of rain – Blue Monday – Hospice duty – The man in Room 5 is no longer eating – M PATHY – In the pink – Neapolitan – A raisin kind of day … 20 $2.00

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Encyclopedia of rain – The map of sorrow – “Death happens. It’s what you do after that counts.” – Grief – Someone else cooks breakfast – My son … 30 $3.00