through wrinkled brow a parent hides,
bouncing beneath the rubble,
a spectre ambling in sallow flesh,
my palm greeting knuckles, cries building, a pulse hastening atop waves of loss,
to dip an ungloved hand into the reliquary of oblivion and return empty,
catching convulsive goodbyes
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bouncing beneath the rubble, 
a spectre ambling in sallow flesh, 
my palm greeting knuckles, cries building, a pulse hastening atop waves of loss, 
to dip an ungloved hand into the reliquary of oblivion and return empty, 
catching convulsive goodbyes
