A Vancouver Poet Confronts Grief and Discovers a Surprising Gift

A Vancouver Poet Confronts Grief and Discovers a Surprising Gift

The only way through was to write. It was the only way to process the loss and the ensuing disorienting grief—the only way to face it completely. Despite the numbness that blurred out the days around when his father passed away, Miguel Eichelberger remembers that part clearly: “Whatever comes next, whatever I’m feeling—doesn’t matter what—I want to stare nakedly at it, and I want to understand it,” he thought. A week after writing the inscriptio…