May her memory be blessed

A year ago today, a friend - a poet, scholar, teacher, and all-around excellent human being - threw herself from the top of a building. Just a few short months before her incredible second book of poems came out.

I've never been so close to a suicide before and at a year's distance I continue to be surprised at the lack of closure, at the inability to progress from sadness and shock.

Sarah, I miss you.