The Burial

This is the first chapter of the book, The Great Lamentation. Some chapters are short some lengthy. A church could be seen from the top of the road, it seemed completely out of place, or was the road itself the intruder? It was a beautiful old building; its foundations were…

Non-Life

This is a chapter, a so-called moment in The Great Lamentation. As the autumn flowers do in the fall, fall to the ground and die, so did I on the day you were forced from me. I yellowed like the leaves of the birch trees and went away with the…

The Sickness unto Death

This is a chapter and a moment in the book The Great Lamentation. He sat in the garden with Sarah and Rodolphe, the dog had come to love Chris. He constantly watched over his protégé. The hammock rocked in its swinging arms; it was sunny outside. A brief thunderstorm had…