How Goes the Battle?
Losses
2013
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Each piece in this series is based on a poem by Kay Ryan.
Losses
by Kay Ryan
Most losses add something —
a new socket or silence,
a gap in a personal
archipelago of islands.
We have that difference
to visit—itself
a going-on of sorts.
But there are other losses
so far beyond report
that they leave holes
in holes only
like the ends of the
long and lonely lives
of castaways
thoughts dead but not.