Safekeeping
Haiku collection: exploring humanityβs ancient relationship with burial and loss
Β© Jennifer McBride 2025 (Paperfly)
(Art: Edward Hopper, 1931)
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Β© Jennifer McBride 2025 (Paperfly)
(Art: Edward Hopper, 1931)
Our culture ritualizes death and it ritualizes occasions like religious conformity but everyday life passes with little more than coffee and toast. Okay so coffee and toast are two of my favorite things so maybe thatβs a ritual too but one that is harder to see because it is disguised as routine.
Beautiful and considered haikus β thank you for sharing!