Grief, Part 2

Jen Russ
1 min readJan 5, 2020

I am nightmare slow.

Thick mud sucks at my snow boots.

My throat is a coffee stirrer

stuck shut.

What else can I do?

Stop?

Sink in?

They say the only way out is through -

Well,

They haven’t seen my through.

They haven’t seen my

bird bones, my

stomach turning crushed

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Jen Russ

Teacher, reader, writer, adoptive mother, animal lover, nature appreciator.