What is the story my ceremony for taking by Lara Mann about?

Answer 1

My Ceremony for Taking is about the sadness and anger the speaker feels in the loss of stability and the familiar. It is also about the evolution or creation of ritual to help ease life transitions. The title has a double meaning of "the ceremony I do when I take something" and also "my ceremony that is available for others use as well." This is actually the title poem of a series of poems, all on the same topic. The first 2 poems of the series are in the online journal Drunken Boat.