Stephe Watson Poet Free verse

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for Astro,

for Kelly

for Someday Farm...

Empty Stall, Quiet Barn, Starless Night, Buried Horse

I'm here tonight
to stand in the ache.
The ache of hollow,
the empty of the not 
simply empty; rather,
the empty of the
recently full.

The silent ache of
missingness, of quiet.
Before the ghosts have
risen, before the
memorial stones are 
set.  Before the cards arrive.
Before the flowers
are vased to wilt.

I'm here tonight
to stand in the ache.
Of what so recently had
been.
Of who was.

I'm here tonight
to stand and weep
and shudder.  I'm here
tonight because
you 
are not.

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