#kim mcclenaghan

[bermuda-buttercup]

The urns are emptier than she expects.

So little ash — our bodies don’t amount

to much, their slack, ever-diminishing flesh.

...

Those once-carefree hearts, now wisps —

their departing smears dismantle hers.

It has taken her so long to get them

here, to find the strength to let them go:

...

~ Kim McClenaghan, excerpts from She Carries the Others