December 2022
Bio Note: I often use the poetic mode apostrophe to address someone or something not physically present. “Dear Husband” is from my most recent book, Threnody, Moon Tide Press, 2022. One of my greatest joys is my on-going workshop now with sessions both remote and in-person.
Dear Husband
You’ve been denied my extra portion, killed as you were before the worst thing happened. (I still won’t say die with its connotation of normal, order.) This kill too fresh for ink to spill its name, so let’s just say that earth quakes and oceans empty from my eyes, eyes I thought would never fill again with salt and water sufficient for such sorrow, sufficient for such pain.
Originally published in Chiron Review
©2022 Donna Hilbert
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