acute phonetics
– for dorothy, sunil’s mom
a needle
a thread
a shunning of words
disposing of this wilderness
within this wanting
for more.
her fingers to lips rip
skin scarlet
motion methodical
mind made up
sewn shut.
a woman of no words
tames the violence of longing
her silence deliberate
as a massacre.
Shadi Eskandani 
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