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May 16 (Death as an Eel)

by Meghan Helmich

I was never afraid of death until it came
sliding out of you.
When I look at you now you are small
and not much of what I remember.
Somewhere you began to fold in.
You pressed our hands together
to see time on our skin,
yours like paper.

It took decades for me to appreciate you
properly.

05/17/2012

Posted on 05/17/2012
Copyright © 2024 Meghan Helmich

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Gabriel Ricard on 05/18/12 at 09:07 PM

Lines like the opening one for this make me hope you write a novel someday. You throw the hooks at the reader like so very few.

Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 05/25/12 at 05:19 PM

I'm with Gabriel on this one. I like all of this.

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