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-- Richard Brostoff, grief


I sat on a gray stone bench
and placed my grief
in the mouth of language,
the only thing that would grieve with me.

-- Lisel Mueller, when I am asked

I want death to take me if it has to,
to spare you,
I want it to pass over.

-- Kim Addonizio, prayer

I take out my throat,
but the grief remains.

-- Alessandra Lynch, couplets

Grief, I've learned, is really just love.
It's all the love you want to give but cannot.
All of that unspent love gathers in the corners of your eyes,
the lump in your throat,
and in that hollow part of your chest.
Grief is just love with no place to go.

-- Jamie Anderson

I needed to make a world,
where I could look for my grandmother once she left this one.
I invented a world because death is unknowable,
and someone I loved was about to live there.

-- Ramona Ausubel

-- Holly Warburton, spirit hold
 

I sat with you beside your bed and cried,

for things that I wish I'd said

-- The 1975, nana