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Emma Elisabeth Wood
Poems
Mar 2016
ICU
I understand a flatline
soap scrubbed hands punching chests
the sound of air escaping in a last breath
I can grieve
black hood and buckled shoes
kicking up dirt in the cemetery grass
I thought I had time so I held off saying it
as your congregation sent you inky kisses and prayers
everything is bleached white and sterile, we choke down chemical soaked breaths
holy fools that come to take you
bone by bone
salt crystals form on my eyelashes
as if I've drunk the sea
I am swollen with bread and wine
and sins
the weight of the three words
I didn't say
catch like pills in my throat
I splutter and cough but there is no
shifting them
just the shifting of tectonic plates as my world starts to move
without you
Written by
Emma Elisabeth Wood
F/UK
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