Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster Loss and moral attention

and moral attention

since 1999

like a fervent seeker

as well as former poets laureate and editors of New Verse Review

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Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster Loss and moral attentionby Tim Mayo Muscle Memories of Love and Disaster explores the arc of a life shaped by loss and renewed by love. The poems intertwine to explore grief from the loss of loved ones (a lover, a daughter and close friends), early memories of growing up in an immigrant foster home, later memories of working in a mental hospital, the poet's own recovery from addiction, the emotional and spiritual impact of a near death and life changing accident with its