by Aaron Sandberg

Focal Point

It’s the lesson
you aren’t looking for

that hits you most—
the camera’s display screen

telling me, losing
focus, to

move closer. Move
closer.

***

After We Put Her Down

I found the rest
of her hair

curled
in the vacuum;

pulled it out in fists;
swirled

it out in the bushes
there

for the thrushes
to build a nest.

New life—I assume—
can come from this.

Photo by Elijah Boisvert on Unsplash