He can’t stop
telling her
no
she does not
want to hear
the words
he is speaking
his mouth
a circle
of betrayal hers
of surprise
and then grief
and she
knows though
they are no longer
there the air
in that far away
room like
a tuning fork
reverberates with
despair and
his voice suspended
in the aqueous
stillness even now
can’t stop
telling her
no
(2018) by Hannah Six
Image: Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust Motes Dancing in the Sunbeams,
1900, oil on canvas (via Wikimedia Commons)
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