Grief is a Place on Your Lower Back

You speak of grief

as if it were a passage

and not a place

on your lower back

he will never touch again.

You speak of grief

as if it were a point of arrival

and not a point of no return.

The point at which

there is nothing left to lose

because you have lost it all.

Loss is loss.

This is not the glamorous reckoning

of better things on the horizon.

When things come tog…