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SHELLEY MARIE
MATHER |
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Kathryn Gilkison |
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The amount of love and support we have received from family, friends
and strangers, continues to amaze and overwhelm me. I have written a collection of
poetry, which gives a voice to some of my feelings around the loss of Shelley
and the whole process from setting off to find her, bringing her home and
attempting to cope with this loss in my life. It is also a kind of thank you
and gift to those people who have been moved by Shelley’s death.
If you have accessed this web site, some of these words will be for
you. I also feel compelled to
call on us all, as part of the global family, to seek ways, other than
war, to sort out our differences and to acknowledge that each death affects
someone’s family somewhere. The book is available
exclusively from the Women’s Bookshop, All profits for the book sale
will be donated to Amnesty International an organization Shelley supported. Below is a copy of the cover and a couple of
the poems, which might give you some idea of the book. DIOR
EYES riding in a Mercedes touring the my roots my birthplace looking through my Dior eyes your eyes your Diors looking through your Dior eyes I drink you in feel you here glimpses of you flash vivid the laugh the look my beautiful girl the world is bleak without you in it looking out through my Dior eyes awash with tears I weep for you my beautiful girl my darling daughter riding in a Mercedes – eyes shut I see you my beautiful girl. LETTERS TO SHELLEY I am becoming technically adept (unlikely though that is) I am saving all your
emails burning them to cd they just stopped after your and I hate that I have them all three years of
connectedness and nary a grumble I said I would ring you on the weekend there wasn’t one your voicemail still works I sometimes call I will keep writing too I can’t bear it to end |
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