grief – I Write Her

My Gift To You

Published on July 23, 2020 by Susi Bocks34 Comments

with shallow breath
and heaving emotions
i bequeath the rivulets
escaping
     pittering
           on the soft earth

from here on out
i lament
the one-sided conversations
a yearning
     for a return
           to more than just memories

***Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #145***

Reblog – About the body by Shayleene MacReynolds

Published on May 13, 2020May 13, 2020 by Susi Bocks3 Comments

An excellent piece delving deep into what heart-felt emotions can do to us. I was pulled into her descriptions, fascinated by how well it described where grief can lay and feel. Just wonderful!

The Wild Heart of Life

Even though I won’t ever see them again, I still carry them.
Inside and outside
On the lining of my heart
And the edges of my brain
Beneath my fingernails
Or hanging from an eyelash.
They saturate my writing and my words
Sloping from an s, or cradled in a y.
Sometimes, they are even in a glass of whiskey glass of wine.

But this is about the body.

If you were to unwind me out across the earth,
Spread out this fleshboat of a body crack open the ribs and peer beneath the surface—
They would be there too.
Resting on an iliac
Sleeping in a clavicle
Wrapped around the vertebrae
They trickle through the veins.
A small room, and the feel of them inside of it
The light and how it pours in through the window
A book of poetry upon the nightstand
A guitar sitting in the…

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