every trauma speaks
just like birthday well-wishers
it signals a start
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as for the rest of this poem--I sit here contemplating it, letting it speak to me while I rummage through my life for corroboration --I love reading your works, they make this creaky brain of mine work--top marks
ah, thatk you for explaining the title--I thought it was a misprint--but how powerful it is to think of the title indicating a trauma in progress
Thank you so much, Susan...I think dreams and traumas are intimately connected.
Absolutely brilliant title and poem. Trauma is the mind's way of asking the body to catch up to speed.
Thank you for the poet's notes. Without them the poem would be incompl
Kim, thank you so mu