| *loolaville _poetry | |||||
| The Silence That Follows The silence that follows the husband closing the eyes of his bride, the silence that follows the single gunshot to a young boy's temple, the silence that follows the pinch of a surgeon's steel tool inside the fearful woman; It is the silence utterly open to stillness that gives birth to the sorrow our bodies have no choice but to contain. |
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