Keith, SallyPadovich, A. K.2015-08-132020-04-212015-08-13https://hdl.handle.net/1920/9739This work was embargoed by the author and will not be publicly available until April 2020.This thesis consists of poetry written over the period of three years in the poetry track of the MFA in Creative Writing program at George Mason University, and especially consists of poetry created in the final year of the program, where the author’s mother passed away. These poems deal directly with topics such as: loss, grief, cancer, caretaking of the sick and dying, and death itself. It is also concerned with the abstraction of the above list into myth, the supernatural, philosophy, and the dream state. This thesis is elegy.enElegyCancerMotherBaba YagaGhostDaughterThesis