Hagstones are rocks with naturally occurring holes. They are often associated with paganism and Celtic mythology as a means of seeing things outside of our realm. A way to see faeries, spirits, and ghosts. It felt appropriate to combine it with this poem about grief. In witchcraft eggshells often represent protection and broken eggshells can indicate removing a source of protection. Below is my original poem in full: Avery

For the first year of your death

I did not write.

All the poetry inside me dehydrated.

Blew away.

There was nothing in that space

But silence

But the absence of you.

The wild and unknowable

Absence of you.

Months of fine-ness

And hate

Of envy and pain.

Words left me.

What was there to say

About the way my bed changed size

When you were no longer in it?

How can I write poems

About your days and death;

About continuing on?

When the truth is

I would gladly spend the rest of my life

Sitting on the floor of my closet

Smelling your stuffed animals

Searching

For another moment with you. "