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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Ernestine Bousquet / The Bulletin
April 10, 2006
Poet Carlos Reyes used words to turn the emotional pain of losing someone close to him into a literal embrace.
His poem weaved the Jewish tradition of placing stones on someone's grave with musings on life and loss. It ended with the words, "The stones. Postcards that you are gone beyond....