Writing for Lynn
Poems, memoir passages, fragments, and living remembrance
A place to gather the work that keeps Lynn present: the love story, the grief, the gratitude, and the witness.
About This Archive
This page is designed to grow. It can hold finished poems, short excerpts, audiobook links, manuscript excerpts, and notes about where a fuller work appears. Rather than forcing everything onto one long memorial page, the archive gives each piece room to breathe.
The entries below are starting points. Replace the placeholder summaries with the exact poems, book excerpts, or links you want readers to see first.
Major Works Connected to Lynn
Overcoming Shyness & Loving Lynn
The most direct account of meeting Lynn, choosing each other, building a life together, and remembering a bond that was much deeper than legal or social labels could contain.
Add a short excerpt here, or link to the book page when it is ready.
Tell Me I’m Not Invisible
Includes the larger arc from invisibility and shyness toward connection, love, creative identity, and the relationships that made healing possible.
Add the passages where Lynn first appears, or link to selected chapters.
What Really Matters
A natural home for poems about Lynn, memory, grief, devotion, and the moments that keep their meaning long after life changes.
Add poems such as “An Infinite Beach,” “The Whole Story,” “What Really Matters,” and “Eternity.”
An Infinite Beach
From What Really Matters: Poems About Love, Loss & Trauma
On some beach that never ends
I'm with her and just for a moment
I pretend that things never change
that sometimes, in moments like this
we walk hand-in-hand forever.
Newer Poems and Reflections
Use this section for recent poems, open-mic versions, or short reflections written after the books. A good pattern is: title, date if known, one paragraph of context, then the poem or an excerpt.
Template for a New Entry
Title: Add poem or reflection title here.
Context: One or two sentences about when and why you wrote it.
Paste poem or excerpt here.
Invite Readers to Share
If someone knew Lynn through Wilmington poetry readings, pottery, UNC care, friendship, or family, invite them to send a memory, photo, or short note. Those memories can become part of the memorial if they consent.