Best Unconsoled Poems

The Lingering and the Unconsoled Heart
by Michael R. Burch
 
There is a silence—
the last unspoken moment
before death,
 
when the moon,
cratered and broken,
is all madness and light,
 
when the breath comes low and complaining,
and the heart is a ruin
of emptiness and night.
 
There is a grief—
the...

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