Waking and Dancing with Grief

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a gray morning band
of clouds gathers in the sky
plays melancholy

loud enough to wake
something feral inside me
a grand refusal

to live numb and small —
grief moves me in jangled ways
to dance from the soul

Samantha Wallen, MFA is a poet, writer, restorative writing mentor, book coach and the Founder of Write In Power. Her work focuses on restoring the human spirit one word at a time…