Depth away from home<\/p>\n
My mother fell from a height into despair
\nand I cried. She is still there as I write.
\nShe gives a description of the walls
\nas thick dark bricks, eighteen feet deep
\ninto grief, thrice the depth for mortals.
\nCould that be the prize of being a fighter?
\nI’ve never been into a home of grief
\nthis deep and long distance away from here.
\nThere’s a scar behind me for my offshoots
\nto learn how to survive a fall into grief.
\nI had my first scar at eight.
\nThe other came no distance afterward.
\nMother has so many already;
\nI have an album made from them.
\nBut she’s in another abyss for being alive.
\nMother, what chases us should desist
\nafter a long unfruitful chase. There are
\nballs of waters in my eyes as I write this.
\nI can only imagine how grief scourges
\na body away from home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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