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First Draft - Ada Limón (returns)

First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing

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Death and the Body Part

Death is looked at as such this emotional loss, but just like your last poem, there's a whole ritual around the body. I remember when my stepmother passed away in two thousand ten i was with her, and that was this moment of just like, oh, there is some one there, and now there is not some one there. And am like, i don't think i'll ever understand that. That physical space is so fascinating.

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