Tuesday, November 05, 2019

twirling

my favorite aunt
starved herself
to death in throes
of acute early
onset alzheimer's

brain & body
inverted
devoured
themselves

we buried her today
but bid goodbye
a ways back

maybe it was
better she looked
so like & unlike herself

i held a barely there
bony hand &

remembered

2 comments:

  1. must have been hard for you - well expressed though

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  2. thanks, jonathan... it was really rough, but i have so many good memories to look back on.

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