Gravestone

On her gravestone,

in the first letter

of my mother’s name,

a drop of dew.

Or is it a tear?

Uncertainty is the womb

of 10,000 things.

At midnight a scent of jasmine,

at dawn a fragrance of

sunbeams in lavender.

The vow of my wound

is not to heal,

but to stay open

like an ancient eye.

Even grief is a breath

of the Beloved.

If you don't know how

to be hollow,

how will you be

filled with music?

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