Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Cocktail Napkins


What is this flesh with us

That beats its chest with us

When death is just a set 

Of growing compromises?


The courtyard swims with cocktail napkins

As the movers pack up all the rooms that we were trapped in.


Silence unspools

Backwards from the grave

Opening up the space between words

By one deep breath each day.

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