“When Death Comes…” (embroidered drawing preparation)

Mary Oliver, Poem 102: When Death Comes When death comes  like the hungry bear in autumn;  when death comes and takes all the bright coins from his purse   to buy me, and snaps the purse shut;  when death comes  like the measle-pox;   when death comes  like an iceberg between the shoulder blades,  …

What can I learn from the little mouse in the house… 

  T’was the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. – Clement Clarke Moore Well, maybe a few mice were.  Since my beautiful cat, Violet, passed away, the mice have been showing up here and there. It makes sense in this 1929 building, a block from…