Saying Goodbye to Thomas
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
23 Poems ~ 35 pages
Price: $29.99 (Hard Cover) ~ $17.99 (Paperback)
Publisher: Finishing Line Press
ISBN #: 979-8-89990-036-5
To Order: Amazon.com or your favorite bookseller.
All proceeds will be equally divided between the ALS Foundation and Death with Dignity,
two of Thomas's favorite charities.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
This book is about a man named Thomas. Saying Goodbye to Thomas, is poet Lenora Rain-Lee Good’s poetic tribute to her “Elder Brother of Choice,&rdquo Her EBOC. Thomas died of ALS on May 30, 2023. This touching collection reveals the soul of a truly remarkable man as well as an equally remarkable poet.
ADVANCE PRAISE:
Part Indian chant, part circus dirge, Lenora Rain-Lee Good’s Saying Goodbye to Thomas, uses literature as blessing to guide her beloved’s spirit into the afterlife, and ours into the space above the earth, where fate attempts to reconcile our conflicting desires.
–Robin Wyatt Dunn, author, If this document should survive and Death Sings
Lenora Rain-Lee Good’s Saying Goodbye to Thomas teaches us how to grieve through her beloved friend. Her poetry is a gift to be remembered when those we love leave us. The leaving is temporary. Lenora demonstrates through Thomas “Walks Easy” Hubbard that the living is eternal.
–Giulio Magrini, author, The Color of Dirt
Every word a talon deep and sharp right into the heart of the reader. This book has the ruthless courage to address the dying of someone dear with eyes and heart open.
–Linda Singer, author, Poetry Apocalypse
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Lenora Rain-Lee Good lives eight feet or so from a manmade lake in Kennewick, WA. She is the author of four and a third published books of poetry–Confessions of a Peace Monger (out of print), Blood on the Ground (Redbat Books, 2016), Marking the Hours (Cyberwit.net, 2021). She co-authored Reflections: Life, the River and Beyond (KDP 2020), with Jim Bumgarner and Jim Thielman, hence “the third.” Her poetry has most recently appeared in Cirque Literary Journal, The Shrub-Steppe Poetry Journal 2024, and Quill and Parchment, an online Literary Magazine. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee for both poetry and fiction. She writes, quilts, collects & tells terrible shaggy dog stories.
FROM THE BOOK (Excerpts):
“Saying Goodbye to Thomas”
by Lenora Rain-Lee Good
I.
I want to throw
myself across your bed, across you
to beg, plead
Don’t. Please, don’t!
We both know you will
why make it harder with my drama?
II.
We share a toast with your favorite Rye
to your new adventure!
III.
We joke and laugh.
When you tell us your fear
waking here
not dying
your bonus sons promise
you will not wake
this side of the veil.
You relax laughter
again fills the room
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