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February 26, 2005
Wheat Grass And Barley Green
By QBlog in
Years later we were finding your vitamin jars
in with boxes of gravy mix and dusty jellos --
not only vitamins but wheat grass and barley green as well,
no longer well.
If I had just known how faith can cut.
I feel the wing gone, the way you missed your breast.
But to yield was itself a kind of dark spot on the spine.
To risk was better, you with yeast fighters,
I with unlikely prayers.
Faith drove me like those B-12 shots that gave you bloom
pumping false health despite the harm
seated in the flesh that works unchecked
days and years on end
until even the memory of your voice lacks weight
and I forget I miss you.
Now, opening soup in this other, harder life,
I hear myself still asking.
- Suzanne U. Clark