Tag: grief metaphor
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Flight Track
Flight Track began as a meditation on the quiet obsession of watching a plane’s progress across a screen. I was drawn to the emotional architecture of measurement—how altitude, speed, and descent become metaphors for survival. The poem uses restraint and ritual to explore what it means to track motion without touching it, and how even…
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The Sheep Tooth Reliquary
The Sheep-Tooth ReliquaryMy wisdom teeth exist in pickled beauty,in a gold-capped mason jar.I take great delight in looking at all that lost wisdom every morning.They don’t haunt me—not like the colon they removed in a total colectomy,incinerated at the height of the pandemic—no goodbye, no ceremony,not even one last proper shit.But those teeth, they have…