Processing Death: The Mama Kay Journals

by Seth A. Walker

In 2014, infamous road-poet Seth Walker got a call that his grandmother had fallen and sustained a traumatic brain injury that would most likely be terminal. Looking for poetry about grieving ended up being an unexpected challenge, so when he left work to take go care of his family, he wrote poetry every day to keep up with all that was happening and process the trauma as it happened.

He wrote them and hid them away until 2020 when a counselor and old friend named Robby Cale approached him about integrating poetry with a few different therapeutic practices. Robby worked with Seth around his residual traumas processing the death in the family, what happened to the family afterwards, and supported him in pushing through getting this body of work collected and formatted into a book available to the public.

If you or a loved one have recently lost someone, this book is here to give empathy and help you feel less alone in all of it. This book is real raw poetry exploring life, death, guilt, futility, cruelty, greed, and ultimately, the release and sometimes lack of it that we all have to end up dealing with at some point.

99 pages, Paperback

Published August 16, 2021