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[ailbhe]

This year I will not see any women smiling blank-eyed from the shock
of losing a child
and I will not hear any passers by
asking how can she smile at such a time?
how can she do anything? is the thing to ask.
(She can't. But she does anyway. No-one knows how.)

Comments

[bookwitch.livejournal.com]

Amen

[pauamma]

(She can't. But she does anyway. No-one knows how.)

Not even her, probably. Not that the how matters much.

[cassandre.livejournal.com]

This is a remarkable poem - so evocative, so true. I like your kid ones too, but this is my favourite poem of yours I have read so far.