THE ANATOMY OF REMAINING
—a conversation with inheritance

Some inherit estates.
Others inherit syntax, posture, mercy and the long afterlife of silence.

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VESTIBULE
— antechamber of the unannounced

Fear announces itself softly.
Stillness can be a grammar of courage.

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DOORWAY —where absence learns to bloom

"Some footsteps remain unheard, yet they never stop echoing"

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HEMSILENCE
—where love left, but its apology remained unspoken

She left my name folded—
in the sleeve of her last winter coat.
It still smelled of her—
or maybe of choices I never made.

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RECALIBRATION
—a voice reverse-engineered from loss

I did not choose verse—
I escaped into it,
when containment
became too elegant
to bear.

Dazed and Confused,
I misread grief
as noise—
until silence
rewrote me
as sound.

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CENOTAPH
—a structure for what could not be held

My life split—
not with sound,
but with the silence that follows
a phone call
that says nothing,
only breath
on the other end
too afraid to become words.

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First Silence
—the memory that remembered me first

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