watercolor.
image: text reads "immigrants and refugees welcome here" on a light orange background with a large pink wild rose in the center and smaller dark green leaves of a rose bush with buds and rose hips framing the text.

grief is a beast

a hard lover

smoke

that leaves

debris lodged

unseen and dangerous

inside

a deep calm body

of grey water

grief

is bodies becoming

battleground

ghosts

becoming

only hearts

only blue suffocated blood

circulating through us just lookin for holes

grief is a hole

vacates

whenever

returns

whenever