About a year after Tom died, I took his toothbrush out of the holder in the bathroom. And I put it in a drawer. I’ll throw it out someday. Probably. Maybe. It took a while longer before I was able to ...

Being in love has got to be one of the best feelings in the world. I’ve been in love before. So have you. Whether with a person, an activity, a TV show or yourself, I know you’ve been in love before.

All poetry is goth, but some poems are more goth than others. And by “goth,” I mean totally unsparing of the twin wildnesses of love and death. The paradox of elegiac poems is that they simultaneously ...