Fiona, July 2026

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Grief is with us, grief for [___].
For love is with us, love for [___].

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A collective prayer for feeling, holding, and metabolizing collective grief. Originally read alongside stewards of the River (Mollala), Moon (Russian Clary Sage), and Sun (Calendula, Rose) to carry the edges of grief too big to carry alone.

Grief is with us, grief for slinkies
For love is with us, love for fat diamonds

Grief is with us, grief for plum spray paint
For love is with us, love for element lipstick

Grief is with us, grief for the life I never once had
For love is with us, love for the contentment and continuity of everyday

Grief is with us, grief for no future
For love is with us, love for what might have been

Grief is with us, grief for the river
For love is with us, love for marriage

Grief is with us, grief for times spent
For love is with us, love for times wasted

Grief is with us, grief for curdled remembrances
For love is with us, love for the same

Grief is with us, grief for forgetting
For love is with us, love for them

Grief is with us, grief for love
For love is with us, love for grief

Grief is with us, grief for love
For love is with us, love for grief

Grief is with us, grief for love
For love is with us, love for grief

Grief is with us, grief for what I could have been
For love is with us, love for what I am

Grief is with us, grief for what I missed when I wasn’t paying attention
For love is with us, love for I find what needs to find me

Grief is with us, grief for those lost parts of myself
For love is with us, love for those parts that need respect

Grief is with us, grief for a good girl
For love is with us, love for his light

Grief is with us, grief for my ancient tether
For love is with us, love for a body of thunder

Grief is with us, grief for attention
For love is with us, love for submission

Grief is with us, grief for possibility
For love is with us, love for possibility

Grief is with us, grief for starting
For love is with us, love for perspiration

Grief is with us, grief for tension
For love is with us, love for what I can’t have

Grief is with us, grief for waiting
For love is with us, love for longing

Grief is with us, grief for us
For love is with us, love for me

Grief is with us, grief for you
For love is with us, love for you

Grief is with us, grief for chance
For love is with us, love for variations

Grief is with us, grief for spring
For love is with us, love for autumn

Grief is with us, grief for tomorrow
For love is with us, love for yesterday

Grief is with us, grief for my future
For love is with us, love for the present

Grief is with us, grief for eternity
For love is with us, love for eternity

Grief is with us, grief for volumes
For love is with us, love for time

Grief is with us, grief for missing home
For love is with us, love for my community

Grief is with us, grief for my mirror self
For love is with us, love for the part of me left

Grief is with us, grief for baby me
For love is with us, love for baby me!

Grief is with us, grief for the things that I let linger
For love is with us, love for the things that I can’t let go of

Grief is with us, grief for the birds
For love is with us, love for their song

Grief is with us, grief for the discarded ones outside and hungry
For love is with us, love for all of them

Grief is with us, grief for stolen families and murdered neighbors, you will remain in our memory
For love is with us, love for community and resilience and love and rage

Grief is with us, grief for time still passing
For love is with us, love for time still passing

Grief is with us, grief for those who go
For love is with us, love for those who come

Grief is with us, grief for the me that died to survive
For love is with us, love for the me that survived

Grief is with us, grief for a loving family
For love is with us, love for a forever friend

Grief is with us, grief for things I have since forgotten
For love is with us, love for the oak in the meadow

Grief is with us, grief for the sea
For love is with us, love for the sea

Grief is with us, grief for winter radishes
For love is with us, love for midsummer’s song

Grief is with us, grief for now
For love is with us, love for ever

Grief is with us, grief for ever
For love is with us, love for ever and ever

Additional lines

free
fees

sale
ward

good
food

birds and bugs that go unsung
my friends and lovers whose hands care for unsung critters such as I

oceania, my persistent lull
a silver wing of lilting gull

grass
paths

foxtails
the barb

ever
those who are still around

all light
every single night

the trees and bees
all I can see

remembering
all

my eyes that see everything I do
those that are with me and ask

night
light

thy
thy

what was stolen
victory