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\n<\/p>\n

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By Ellen Bass<\/a><\/p>\n

to love life, to love it even<\/p>\n

when you have no stomach for it<\/p>\n

and everything you\u2019ve held dear<\/p>\n

crumbles like burnt paper in your hands,<\/p>\n

your throat filled with the silt of it.<\/p>\n

When grief sits with you, its tropical heat<\/p>\n

thickening the air, heavy as water<\/p>\n

more fit for gills than lungs;<\/p>\n

when grief weights you down like your own flesh<\/p>\n

only more of it, an obesity of grief,<\/p>\n

you think, How can a body withstand this?<\/em><\/p>\n

Then you hold life like a face<\/p>\n

between your palms, a plain face,<\/p>\n

no charming smile, no violet eyes,<\/p>\n

and you say, yes, I will take you<\/p>\n

I will love you, again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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