*i have reached the age when
people i love
or once loved
die
they are still mapped
on my body, my brain
but they have fallen off
this earth
into the ground
the sky
ashes
or dirt
sometimes i don’t know
for months
sometimes i find
the body
a husk
turned to seed *
--
sharon brogan
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