Poetry by gary lundy

      George Bremer CC




several times a day
 
we feel the guilt and
sorrow of leaving
you then returning
honestly too late to
make it up to you
then fourteen months
later you fall down
die adding to the 
already deep grief of 
having lost our sister
father and more
recently after you
our mother not to
mention earlier loses
which simply makes
our experience one
shared by most
and nothing we can
do comforts amidst
breathless disintegration
and the emptiness of
being forever thus 
blocked full and final 
as we all must know
we are going to be
soon enough already



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gary lundy(they/them). their most recent book, each room echoes absence was published by Foothills Publishing (Spring 2018). His poems have appeared in a variety of magazines and journals including The BeZine, Vallum, Field, Ethel, and Oxidant | Engine BoxSet Series 4. lundy is a retired English professor and queer living in Missoula, Montana.