loss of loss

the following is too much of too little.

*

write it write it

write the poem that includes everyone

including you

there sitting sloppily

looking at them flipped

precipitating pages of night

and remaining unseen

unread

unknown

like a lost thing

*

no one reads

and all remains right

for there is little wrong

with so much wrote

*

there is no word

for the loss of a child

perhaps except infantry

and the trying war therein

*

there is no word

for the loss of a child

perhaps except exception

to all we learned as children

*

there is no word

for the loss of a child

perhaps except –

*

there is no word

for the loss of a child

perhaps except

there is no child

for the loss of words