title: Seasons of Grief and Hope: A reflective journey through quilts and poetry
author: Monique Cerundolo
description: MONIQUE CERUNDOLO is a certified Chaplain, an artist and a poet. Her exhibit Seasons of Grief and Hope has been presented in many venues since 2009. Monique lives in Massachusetts with her husband and children.
zlib_text: DAYS IN DOUBT:
  A COLLECTION OF PANIC POEMS FOR THE GROWING GIRL (IN YOU)
   
  G. E. S. BOWLES
  
  Copyright © 2013, by Another B Movie Enterprises
  All Rights Reserved
  
  This meager, tear-soaked text is dedicated to M.B.H.
  The twin and partner who held my hand
  Through every doubtful day…
   
   
  
  …And To The Ones Who Cry
  But Who Can’t Quite Say Why
  
  PREFACE
  The years we spend bridging that bizarre and painful divide between
  childhood and adult identities are rarely as sunny as we hope, and look
  nothing like what is to come. They also tend to sprawl alarmingly, beginning
  far too soon, creeping into later years when we thought they would surely be
  long since annihilated with the unarticulated touchstone of adulthood. I was
  lucky, I sprouted up from a family which pours copious love and support
  onto me, perhaps even too much as it leaves me coated in their glowing
  perceptions which I tend to want to rub off with as much dirt as possible. My
  depressions and anxieties have lurked inside of me since gra