What if the haunting call of Loon is not simply a sound across the water, but the voice of grief itself? In age old legends of Loon in North American indigenous folklore, Loon emerges as a mythic figure of grief and transformation—a maternal keeper of what is too painful to see, and a compassionate witness to both the wounds we suffer and the wounds we inflict. She does not make tragedy disappearr; she enters the darkness with us. Meeting Loon Woman in the storied world, grief takes on a creaturely body: feathered, aquatic, wild, and we come to know something of this creature called grief.