Their collected grief:
gripped in tissue, wiped on jeans
or gravity pulled
*
Situational -
splattering their shoes and the
gym floor unabashed
*
And disappearing
down cracks, or lost to ether
in each other’s eyes
*
Welled red and burned so
with the memory and loss
of their beloved
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181 Keeping Watch
Each day she watched through her window. Watched? Perhaps an exaggeration: a monochromatic nuclear aftermath remaining of the world, blurring into a blindness--loss of contrast and depth of field. Achromatic aberrations displayed a waste-scape stratified in grays.
By Gerard DiLeo3 days ago in Fiction
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