Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreys
Helen Humphreysis a Canadian poet and novelist...
mistaken
I like being mistaken for someone useful.
grief moving like-love
Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.
lucky stories ifs
Every story is a story about death. But perhaps, if we are lucky, our story about death is also a story about love.
real reading way
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.
goodbye lost-ones choices
This is what I know about love, That it is tested every day, and what is not renewed is lost. One chooses either to care more or to care less. Once the choice is to care less, then there is no stopping the momentum of goodbye. Each loved thing slips away. There is no stopping it.