Don't Get Involved

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This originally appeared at The Irresponsible Reader.
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...Are you okay?'

‘I will be. The first layer of gauze has been wrapped around the pain.'

‘Gauze?'

‘Grandpa said that grief was like a wound. Time was like a dressing. A piece of gauze. At first the blood, the pain, flows through. Then, as the dressing gets thicker and stronger the flow stems, until it can no longer be seen. Sometimes a scab breaks. The blood seeps through again with a memory, but the dressing holds. With time.'

Seraphina's Lament

Don't Get Involved

My thanks to F J Curlew for the invitation to participate in this tour and the materials (including the book) provided for it.