hopeful elegies

After her sister's death, the author responds to lost identities, lost futures, and lost love by sitting in the dark with bereavement. Attempting to navigate a new identity, grief bleeds into all areas of life including romantic partnerships. How does loss affect these connections? How does failure in relationships feed into and magnify grief? In the ethereal space created in hopeful elegies, readers are invited to explore loss loss of loved ones, loss of relationships, loss of self and to be inspired by the author's mission to write pain into peace. Using motifs of reflection, light, and the macabre, hopeful elegies creates images of mourning that cycle into hope. hopeful elegies expresses pain and selfdoubt that are characteristic of those liminal spaces and the beauty in possibilities that tether one to the future.