Another Poetic Argument For Grief - Kristy Hellums

[Larry Robinson]

Another Poetic Argument For Grief

Have you cried enough
in this lifetime?

Take your grief seriously
 
Become the ash urn
 for the vanishing wilderness

   Despair for the Dolphins 

Make your own salt water 
  for the disappearing marshes

The silent Earth is listening

Be called to outrageous acts of despair

And then,

Every now and again

In the face of splendor

Turn toward it.

	- Kristy Hellums