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Expresso

Elizabeth Helmich
1 min readApr 16, 2020

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Photo, my own

We sing
in our home
concerts, hearing

more than when alone,
in that space between
sternum and clavicle.

We exist
in our roars
of denial, filtered

through the hum
of a blade of grass
trembling in the wind.

Hush, now.
It’s all our song.

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Elizabeth Helmich
Elizabeth Helmich

Written by Elizabeth Helmich

Holes and a series of rabbits — my debut poetry collection — now available! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089RRRGXX/

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