the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness - Marcella Polain - Bog

wbo will become the pitch and cadence
the seven-eight count of unstoppable sadness?
(from 'trees', p35)

written 2008 to 2022, these poems in six parts (each part a ount) dive beneath the endless swells of love and grief that break over us like music or the rapid beating of our hearts

here, the missing seventh count is imagined: caesura; break; breathe