Desejo
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#2 Silence
Silence
This silence
awful
leopard slippers I sent her
perched still on the couch, the plastic loop between them
unbroken
“They are looking at me” she had said
but she could not talk long,
she was tired
Now there is only
this silence
awful
swallowing resolute activity
of casseroles and cleaning out
friends and cousins reuniting
carrying on
Instead I unpin postcards
from the kitchen walls where
my childish handwriting evolving
in loops, slants and drops
over the years
my fingers so resemble hers
I add these to the traces I
explain to no one
Traces
Meaningless, confusing
to those left
in
awful silence.
Silence
This silence
awful
leopard slippers I sent her
perched still on the couch, the plastic loop between them
unbroken
“They are looking at me” she had said
but she could not talk long,
she was tired
Now there is only
this silence
awful
swallowing resolute activity
of casseroles and cleaning out
friends and cousins reuniting
carrying on
Instead I unpin postcards
from the kitchen walls where
my childish handwriting evolving
in loops, slants and drops
over the years
my fingers so resemble hers
I add these to the traces I
explain to no one
Traces
Meaningless, confusing
to those left
in
awful silence.
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