Time consoles the mourner

Touch: The Journal of Healing

by Deborah Kroman

Time consoles the mourner,

“See, now you can sleep.

Your tears fill a smaller vase.

Grief sits beside you,

counts the months on her fingers.

Without her you’d be alone.”

Deborah Kroman has studied writing at the University of Houston, Rice University, and the University of Missouri--Kansas City. A Pushcart Nominee, her poems have appeared in several journals, including New Letters, Coal City Review and Snowy Egret. Three of her poems won Boulevard's 2007 Emerging Poets Contest.