That Which Cannot Be Reclaimed

Let me tell you
about damage, about the billows of soft
bodies ballooning out. On that Thursday,
grief filled the spaces, on that Thursday,
grief coloured beyond the lines of that maze
we’d found ourselves in. No one cares
about the birds until they take flight,
(no one cares until they witness how you speak to me)
they point at their feathers, dusky black, forest green,
see them rising, rising: hot air.

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