Where does Grief live?

Grief lives.

Grief lives in my lungs.

It shifts in my shoulders. 

Grief nuzzles into my jaws.

It lodges into my hips.

Grief wiggles through my belly.

It swirls by my brain.

Grief slides down each strand of hair.

It wraps around my neck.

Grief pierces through my heart.


It is part of me now,

Grief lays entwined with my veins.

Grief contracts, then expands.

Contracts, then expands

with each breath I take.

In the contractions how easily I forget,

an expansion is coming.

to offer grief a gentle release.