title: One Silken Thread: Poetry's Presence in Grief (Journeys & Memoirs Series)
author: Lee D. Scheingold
description: Lee D. Scheingold, MA, MSW, has degrees from Duke University, University of Wisconsin, and University of Washington. She is coauthor of 'Sex and the Aging Heart' (1974) and has written over twenty articles in medical and psychoanalytic journals. She worked in Seattle for thirty years as a medical and psychiatric social worker and teacher of family practice physicians.
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  Kelly Barnhill
  
  
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  Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
  
  
  2018
  
  
  
  
  
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  _To the Ladies of the Sewing Guild_  
  (and you know who you are)  
  this volume is lovingly dedicated.
  
  
  
  
  
  Table of Contents
  
  
  [Mrs. Sorensen and the Sasquatch](story01_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Open the Door and The Light Pours Through](story02_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Dead Boy’s Last Poem](story03_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Dreadful Young Ladies](story04_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Taxidermist’s Other Wife](story05_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Elegy to Gabrielle—Patron Saints of Healers, Whores and Righteous
  Thieves](story06_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Notes on the Untimely Death of Ronia Drake](story07_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Insect and the Astronomer: A Love Story](story08_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [The Unlicensed Magician](story09_split_000.xhtml)
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](ack.xhtml)
  
  
  
  
  
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  The day she buried her husband—a good man, by all