Therapist Asks Me to Describe Grief
Storm comes like Gorgon slither
Gorgon wingspan
Sound is someplace else
like head under water someplace
Tumbling, duckweed cover, under water someplace
Where is Eurydice
Is that echo
These walls never ending
These walls anonymous navigation
We crossed, we did indeed
We crossed looking for the spirit
of the storm
Lapping tides exed out winds lavender in all
Earth bound is what comes
bound by forces of dark
forced dark
Heaven’s spread thinned out
universal texture of gum
universe mugged
the ground’s bottomed out
outed, muddied as all hell
The heart caught in the grey clouds moving
Notes:
Copyright: reprint “Therapist Asks Me to Describe Grief” from Sunnylyn Thibodeaux’s Lucky Charms: New and Selected Poems, 2000–2025. Copyright © 2026 by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux. Reprinted with the permission of City Lights Books. www.citylights.com
Source: Poetry (January/February 2026)