creative ramblings & reverie

Friday, March 22, 2013

Absences


Things I will miss, as much as those
who have taken them down, away
with them, in going, leaving
     absences:
the string of paper birds
the photocopy of a freckled
     Pippi Longstocking flipping pancakes
the lazy long-handled butterfly net
the Gorey alphabet poster
the pyramid of Raisin Bran boxes
     defying gravity
          until the very last moment of rise
              fails
                   falters
                       falls,
               into that long forever-after of aching
                     to rise again,
              the settling drift
                  of phantom pain.



—Christie

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