H e a r t S o n s & H e a r t D a u g h t e r s of A l l e n G i n s b e r g

N a p a l m H e a l t h S p a : R e p o r t 2 0 1 4 : A r c h i v e s E d i t i o n

HOLLY JONES

A Letter In A Slight Dark

I have been here before

watching one fall way––

to most want

those that leave the fastest.

You moved slower

than often death’s summon––

a collapse into absence.

You exist in departures.

You leave nothing you need.

You never say good-bye.

It is clear to me

that nothing

is wholly mine,

not even myself.

Now I am wrapped

in the sleeve of your absence.

This must be

what I need to be––

tangled in the void,

writing