I could be asleep
but I keep hearing her
hollow with hunger
elegiac from pain
there is the smiling face
there is the stilled corpse
in the same (only?) dress
her silence is my voice
with all its broken bones
the secret, broken seams
dreaming of home, return-
ing to an unbroken body
She knows more than I do
and yet like any child asks
why why why why
why why why why
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