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Hope Horner: Vacancy

Wednesday, July 19, 2023

Grief



As soon as the hush falls,
In every lifeless lull,
Your name repeats in my ears.
Memories of you
both fond and fatal,
flash and flicker
On an endless loop in my mind,
Like an old TV in a store front window.
The picture is blurry and wavy
And the sound undermined by a hiss.
I should move on.
But
I stop and listen;
Stand and stare;
Until my ears ring,
My eyes sting,
Until the hush lifts,
The lull is dismissed
By someone on the street who asks
What are you looking at?
Are you OK?
I point 
But they see only a window.
I walk on in the rain.


Copyright Hope A. Horner, 2023. Use with permission only. Contact author on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hopeh1122 or on Twitter @HopeNote / RIP Cali 2012-2023

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