by Sarah Stockton
What is the average cost of home health care
in that small town? of a hospital bed, a funeral?
research healthcare directives, payment plans
Where is the nearest welcoming church?
check the about, staff, ethics and services pages
What do hospice chaplains believe?
Look-up Dr ________________
Check the spelling, check the ratings,
Note: new doctor on every shift rotation
Search: end of life
Search: extraordinary measures
Search: airplane flights
Search: how to ship cremated remains out of state
What to include in an obituary
How much do human ashes weigh
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Sarah Stockton is the author of two chapbooks and a full-length collection: The Scarecrow of My Former Self (MoonPath Press, 2024), a finalist for the WA State Book Award in Poetry. Her poems have appeared in Crab Creek Review, About Place Journal, Rise Up Review, Glass Poetry, Whale Road Review, Blue Mountain Review, and Poetry Northwest, among many others, and in several anthologies. Sarah lives by the Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest.
Image: Md Mahdi
ID: an airplane flying through white clouds.
Psaltery & Lyre 