Julia Mallory takes grief head on in her new book Survivor’s Guilt, a collection of poetry and prose that is a meditation on the death of her eldest son Julian in a shooting in 2017, as well as reflection on other losses in her family and among the wider Black community.
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"Chasing Waterfalls" and "Edges," by Julia Mallory
A month after my 17 year old son's earthly shell joined his spirit, I was up in the mountains chasing waterfalls with a man I loved but had not yet told. I needed a body of water to baptize my grieving being into. An experience to remind me that I was not numb, that my heart, while broken, was a mosaic, reflecting light and still beating in my chest. …
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