Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Newlyweds/Parenting

1.
there was a single brief reprieve
in the weeks after the wedding
the plane made metaphor of 
two grounded lives 

and two birds flew 
to the mountains
out of the bounds 
of what they knew
 
2.
hell is worry of a parent for a child
who is lost in their bedroom
in willful silence

a beating heart eaten
in the abysmal dark
by a creature who believes love
is nervous devouring

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