LATE
The word that stings
when spoken of the living
or the dead. As though
one might, somehow, arrive
better, sweetened by absence
and robust, while here
we sat, believing,
irritated we were left
holding the tab for a life
in absentia, as though
absent-minded. .
The word that stings
when spoken of the living
or the dead. As though
one might, somehow, arrive
better, sweetened by absence
and robust, while here
we sat, believing,
irritated we were left
holding the tab for a life
in absentia, as though
absent-minded. .