"Strange Reunion"

[Meg]

STRANGE REUNION

In the Milky Way's
smooth darkness, you were weightless.
Do you remember?

And the stars were still
and distant. He grasped your hand
as you whorled upwards.

When the movement stopped,
you felt him there, warm and brown
and soft as leather.

Holding you upright
in the black, where you hovered
in strange reunion.

Here, your grandfather,
and real then as autumn leaves
when you kissed his hands.

And he was young and
familiar, that held you in
forgotten memory.

Do you remember?
If there were words, they were not
needed. You felt them

moving through your blood,
tangible and comforting
as worn corduroy:

Grand-daughter. Here in
the glittering, I give you
all my love, my pride.

Until your belly
was full with it, and you knew
he'd been there always.

Watching, and sending
love to you, through the filmy
curtain between worlds.
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