Literary Nonfiction. Windows mouths buttonholes. Frames making use of an absence. LYREBIRD is a story of loss told in fragments. It is the documentation of a miscarriage and the chronicle of the dissolution of a relationshipa moving discovery on how it is possible to approach a thing with tenderness and still watch it break. In this short lyrical memoir Meredith Clark delves into light memory and the crushing absence of things not yet known. LYREBIRD slowly circles its heartbreak through under