"Naming The Stars" by Joyce Sutphen

Apr 14, 2020 08:11


This present tragedy will eventually
turn into myth, and in the mist
of that later telling the bell tolling
now will be a symbol, or, at least,
a sign of something long since lost.

This will be another one of those
loose changes, the rearrangement of
hearts, just parts of old lives
patched together, gathered into
a dim constellation, small consolation.

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Gratitude emmereeves April 15 2020, 07:02:19 UTC
that is a lovely, yet forlorn

why are they unable to 'connect'?

so... Poe Try

Poe>

try?

P. oe

~emme her fingertips
touching his, the faint fusion
of two bodies breaking into light.

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