Atmospheric
the ones who loved me
into existence are gone
with them went their souls
but, then, if souls are
energies decentralized
when our bodies die
I choose to conclude
that their love now surrounds me
in all directions
Amy Wilde is a writer in Austin, Texas. Her poetry, reportage, and essays have appeared in Poets for Science, Lonely Planet, The Collective Quarterly, and elsewhere, and her creative nonfiction work was shortlisted in the Ploughshares 2024 Emerging Writer’s Contest. Her newsletter, Brown Paper Packages, offers shareable pleasures and connective ideas for These Here Times.
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