Flake

Grief is an emotional snowflake;

each piece of your life's story

a unique crystal, suspended in place,

yet attached to and floating

through space and time

with all the others.

Its shape, and yours, formed

by how and when each event arrives,

as well as how much time and space –

exterior and interior – you find

to process them, layering one

upon another, in a form as likely

to be malignant and atrophying

as artistic and cathartic,

depending on grace’s arrival. 

© 2013 Todd Jenkins