WWalter, Karen, and Julie chez Christine and Anand, 2010
Thank you Dale Wisely and other editors of Right Hand Pointing for nominating my poem And then for Best of the Net 2023. I am honored. This poem also appears in The Beautiful Leaves.
And then
How empty his body became
once he’d left it,
his jaw hanging slack, then
slacker,
his face emptying, dissolving
into mere parts. Empty of him,
no longer his face. Still his
hands.
I still expected him
to pull away
from my tugging fingers
when I tied up a bundle of his
silver hair
with a length of thread,
binding a sheaf
before I cut it off.
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