Inhale. Exhale. In—
In—in—in. The shakes.
How do I breathe?
How did you breathe?
When Death took your friend?
Or did the Breath of Life
Forget to breathe?
Do you still come? See?
Weep?
If you’d come.
If you came. Even now.
Grief.
Like raindrops slipping.
Slipping down glass.
Racing. Merging. Bleeding.
In—in—in. The shakes.
Hands, salt-bathed,
Cup my face.
I know. In—in—in.
Even now. In—I know.
The shakes.
Not one breath.
Two.
