Saturday, September 30, 2023

Best of the Net Nomination, 2023: And then

 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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