Susan Hawthorne #52 lessons in grief

it’s the rituals

opening eyes

making breakfast

eating breakfast

going to the office

sitting down to work

getting up again

                        being shadowed

making lunch

being reminded it’s walk time

walking on the beach

getting her dinner

making our dinner

                        being shadowed

going to bed

and so it goes on

every space suffused

scraped clean of you

hollowed into silence

                        not being shadowed