I’m trying to find the right words
to talk around the shape of tragedy,
sounding it out slow like can you
use it in a sentence? Death is not
a proper noun. I backspaced over
my efforts, spinning tired wheels
like they’ve gone flat on interstate.
I felt I had to delete the post where
I said I was against atrocity, just in
case of what. No one is looking,
but I still keep my head down under
the weight of my mind’s eye, making
out nothing in the dark but darkness.
