Linda Coggin poem and illustration: Letting Go

Dog Days by Linda Coggin probably won't come out till Spring now. Tariq Goddard, the publisher, asked me to provide some simple illustrations to give the slim volume a bit of padding.
Here's the poem:   

        Letting Go

      We let her go

      like a large fish

      grasping for air

      all fight gone.

      We made small gestures

      of comfort

      water on the lips

      morphine in the veins

      pillows banked.

      We combed her hair.

      And when we weren’t looking

      she slipped away

      back into the dark waters

      of the night.