Elegy to a Cancer AltarAfter my diagnosis we moved West. I set an altar in our living roomoverlooking Lake Crescent.For over two years I knelt herestaring at an apex of Creation.Outside waves chewed my pain.I longed for deep breaths, release ofresistance: pushed aside tears, the buried.On the pine table I placed dried sage in an … Continue reading Elegy to a Cancer Altar – a poem by Laura E. Garrard