Grief was not loud.
It was the long corridor
between rooms I stopped entering.
David Anson Lee
David Anson Lee is a physician, philosopher, and poet originally from the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. His poetry explores grief, human resilience, and the quiet revelations found in everyday life. David’s work has appeared in Right Hand Pointing, Unbroken Journal, The Scarred Tree, Braided Way, and Eunoia Review, among others. He writes with attention to emotional precision, sensory detail, and the interplay of light and shadow in human experience.