<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Elderhood</font><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">When a sudden memory</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Clasps my throat</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Making everything taste like ashes </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">I go looking for an elder</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">To sweeten the tea </font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Of grief’s reverie</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">They know more than the rest </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Of us about memories</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">And the art of loving again</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Bank the embers</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Of your hearth fire</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">For there’s a long night</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">Of storytelling ahead</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">There may be no</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""> better way</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">to discover how to love</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""> even more</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class="">than</font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""> through loss. </font></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 26px;" class=""><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="s2"></span><br class=""></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span class="s1"><font face=".SFNS-Regular" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Kristy Hellum</font></span></div></div></div></body></html>