Thursday, May 8, 2025

Samuel 1: In Writing

 There is heft to sadness

a hard brittleness to grief--

it etches the edges

of the unspoken

the black maw 

no sound can breach. 


Lips, teeth, tunneling

gullet. All the sloughed-

off selves.

Masticated

crushed and swallowed.

 

See me, I pray. 

Remember who

I am, when I

myself have forgotten. 

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