One

Does being alone mean an empty house?

Have you held a kitchen to yourself as the pot whistled?

and choked on a chuckle with yourself

at how memories were accomplished at this stove

Two

Does being alone mean pinpricks on a dark night?

Have you looked at the dark branches of those trees?

in reverence at the elemental ways that ghouls speak

to falling stars, the clouds, the framing sky

Three

Does being alone mean sending waking dreams into the dawn?

Have you opened the door to a sweet smoky morning?

and safely exited the thoughts that held on to your little finger

as though a scared child looking at the black yonder

Four

Does being alone mean going down deep within your frenzy?

Have you delved into your own shadows?

carefully braiding them into each of your hairline fractures

they bury into broken places, eyelids frothing

By Kashiana Singh

From: United States

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