This is a poem I wrote around the time of a family member passing away, and my reflections on that. I affixed a paper skull and crossbones to the left of the silver embossed crown stamp and added a pewter full moon face on the right side. I placed two strips of spider web paper on either side, before adding the hand written hand fired parchment on top of them. I then added two stickers with superfine gold and green glitter, one a skull that matches the crossbones and skull affixations and one is a spider, to compliment the web paper and also to connect with the art of writing itself. I hand stamped a few graveyards and added a pewter skeleton charm as well. Sorry about the glare, I have lots of windows in my house, and lots of reflections all around. Death/Poem A dark horse gallops towards me and I immediately recognize death and its shower of sand in my eyes and its drowning and wishing realizations of how short a life really is how time surpasses us in a blur and suddenly we forget the names of the most familiar things as we walk along the streets of our well lived lives of our memories still intact of our tears pouring in torrents of wasted fears and impending endings we wait knowing their inevitability knowing their entrance will be sublime and coincidental dirty diamonds and the smell of something burning all day long just the simple cylinder of our lives as are all things as are we all