person Natasha Kochicheril Moni, five poems
Natasha Kochicheril Moni is a 2018 Jack Straw Writer and the author of four poetry collections (The Cardiologist’s Daughter, Two Sylvias Press, 2014; Lay Down Your Fleece, Shirt Pocket Press, 2017; Nearly, Dancing Girl Press, 2018; A Nation (Imagined), winner of the 2018 Floating Bridge Press chapbook competition, forthcoming). http://www.natashamoni.com/
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When Asked What You Know About Grief, You Remind Me
of me—that I don’t believe in umbrellas
or eggs or beets or anything
that could pass for an egg,
an umbrella, a beet.
You tell me there is a meadow beyond
the fence over there and how it disappeared
your dog—but that fence is falling,
has been in a perpetual state
of suspension since you and I have—
and you are allergic to fur.
You are in the middle of an omelet
without ketchup, only because there isn’t,
and you tell me grief is…
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