Grief Has No Welcome Garment
Grief has no welcome garment;
it picks through its broken toys --
the horse with its ragged tail, the headless
doll, the dollhouse of empty rooms,
the constant falling across what is broken.
It tries on various clothes: patience,
anger, commiseration -- but they drop,
looming on the floor.
It tastes its milk of suicide, bitter
in the mouth. It feeds on the eventual.
It takes in its hands stopped clocks,
urging their single hours, trying
to unwind the undone. It falters, halts,
hangs in mid-sentence the awful 'Why?'
its tone-deaf question, and aimless walking.
Twice burned, it buries its graves.
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Author's Note
The title was a last line in an short work I wrote about grief. A friend suggested I use it as the first line of a new poem.
Other stories by Philip F. Clark
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The invasive, inclusive sense of futility...grief becomes the garment. *
We're both writing about grief lately. This pretty much days it all.*
*says
Whooo. I like this very much, sensitive writing with lovely imagery.
Well done.
So well defines the line.
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Nicely personified. I agree with Ellie.
Many thanks, colleagues.