Source: https://marlaszwast.medium.com/the-vacuum-e884bf0746c4
Date: Oct 30, 2019
The Vacuum
A Poem
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Photo by Dean Hayton on Unsplash
The vacuum created
by the absence of your arm
around me at midnight
while I sleep
Is the heaviest nothing
I ever felt.
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