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Poetry | March/April 2023

The Weight of You

By Gail Snyder

A birth 
announcement 
in an unsolicited newsletter
welcomes a baby girl
weight 7 lbs 5 oz
 
No announcement of you
all those decades ago
just absence to fill 
my hollowed 
heart
 
the weight 
of you
barely a whisper

2 replies on “The Weight of You”

Loresays:
March 15, 2023 at 3:31 pm

Gorgeous … and painstaking

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Robin Worgansays:
March 27, 2023 at 10:20 am

“The weight” of what you don’t say compared to what you do! Ripped my heart out. Well done. I can only imagine.

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