Sep 26, 2017
(a difference between grief & mourning: grief is feeling, & mourning, how you perform that feeling)
— Lauren Russell, from “I Keep Thinking I Want to Get Married When What I Mean Is Safety.” published in Spiral Orb
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(a difference between grief & mourning: grief is feeling, & mourning, how you perform that feeling)
— Lauren Russell, from “I Keep Thinking I Want to Get Married When What I Mean Is Safety.” published in Spiral Orb
On Spiral Orb: “Prayer”
invited to dinner i take my place at the table across mother who waits for my fingers to uncurl
the emptiness of our sacrifice lifted by my hands above this love that tries to bind us to an old name that no longer knows the road home
Read the full poem on Spiral Orb.