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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