Sunday, May 17, 2026

the afterlife of silence

you imagined yourself a mother
as you leaned into the future
then you wake up dreaming
and walking toward yourself

at dusk, stars start like beacons
to show us a new underworld
at emergent touch, birds rise 
in the dawn like smoke signals 

one sadness sparks another 
as devotion returns slowly 
in careful curls like a seared
page... tell me I won't forget
how I know something now
 & hold it secret in my belly 
________
Pic: Summer anemones. Radiology Gardens with L.

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