Your words painting a painting of grief via time in a gallery - so amazing!!!! - Jenine Bsharah Baines

blue scarf,
 pale skin, bright red lipstick,
 bags dark as death
 under the unlit eyes.
 
 Take my dau… thin
 as cane sticks, hair chewed off
 the skull by chemotherapy.
 The bravery of her appearance:
 black beret, blue scarf,
 pale skin, bright red lipstick,
 bags dark as death
 under the unlit eyes.
 
 Take my daughter’s relentless pain
 and transfer the anguish to my body.
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Grieving the Death of a Daughter
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Your words painting a painting of grief via time in a gallery - so amazing!!!!
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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