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2013-05-24T21:20:27-07:00May 24th, 2013|Musings on life|

There is nothing a mouth can say

Today I heard one of those stories
the kind that hollows out your head
and makes you say

no
no
no

into the palm that stays
over your mouth
which you leave there for a long time
because there is nothing
a mouth can say

to reverse the absence
of so many people
in one family
in one moment

and you imagine the ones
left behind
and how they bend over
under the days
lined up like lead

each one full of reminders
that must be carried.

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