The Binary Catalogue of Loss

emptied trees raking season
your scrubbed body writing obituaries
in fading light for my family

nautical twilight repotting
framing your face I dig deep into
in my hands my dirt

corpse flower endless sky
swallowed suns the perfect shape
of tomorrow of an open palm

knotweed soup season
your presence choking costco sized bag
my presence of mini crackers

sparrow nest subtle pulsating
folding the laundry of a flat fontanelle
after funerals no moon yet

long sunset hollowed sky
a stranded necklace another astrologer
of planets blames Saturn

stained glass inked sky
how light is light my eyes squinting
in your albireo at your darkness

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When Kashiana Singh is not writing, she lives to embody her TEDx talk theme of Work as Worship into her every day. Her second full-length collection, Woman by the Door, was released in 2022 with Apprentice House Press and her newest full-length collection, Witching Hour, is coming out in 2024 with Glass Lyre Press. She proudly serves as President for North Carolina Poetry Society and Managing Editor for Poets Reading the News.