(1.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
with the same weightlessness
as a child’s hand
takes flight
out of a car window<\/p>\n\n\n\n
sunlight
treads down
the chameleon canopy
of the hazelnut tree<\/p>\n\n\n\n
leaf
by
leaf<\/p>\n\n\n\n
she waltzes
to the ground<\/p>\n\n\n\n
only pausing
as to inhabit
whatever remnant
of the morning’s rain she encounters
and dissolve there
into every color<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(we all let ourselves be divided
by our grief, and maybe
light itself is no different.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(2.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
wind paints with light
into view strings of spider silk
as veils upon skeletal alliums<\/p>\n\n\n\n
they had cast away
their colors
to coronate death
in purple halos<\/p>\n\n\n\n
when she took K. from us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(after the funeral
you told me
that moths now clung
to your every step<\/p>\n\n\n\n
what kindness he possessed
to show you
that even death
couldn’t ever mute your glow.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(3.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
here it is
the hour
where she
renders
all of us
translucent<\/p>\n\n\n\n
where
she dares go
for us<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in asking death<\/p>\n\n\n\n
to be
but another
false dormancy
of love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
(and perhaps
our bone marrow
being the color of autumn<\/p>\n\n\n\n
is the body’s way
of saying<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that sometimes
relinquishing ourselves
is an act of self intimacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n
that it is okay
to let these long haunted parts
finally decay.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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