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What do I have
to help me, without spell or prayer,
endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,
the death of love?

— Carol Ann Duffy

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Somewhere on the other side of this wide night
and the distance between us, I am thinking of you.
The room is turning slowly away from the moon.

All I know is this:
he went out for his walk a man
and came home female.

When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.

Here.
It will blind you with tears
like a lover.
It will make your reflection
a wobbling photo of grief.

I cannot say where you are. Unreachable
by prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeable
in the air, even if souls are stars.

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