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May 30
πŸͺ”

I pretend I’m just fine

But your absence

Maps itself all over my face

Like shadow tracing bones.

πŸͺ”
Some losses don’t announce themselves with tears or noise , they settle into the contours of us, silently rewriting how the world reads our face.
Cadmus
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Cadmus  Earth, briefly.
(Earth, briefly.)   
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