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Watts​

by Holly Coleman
Not gone, only changed
like breath released to sky.

Close your eyes.
(Silently: listen!)

Death is a shadow;
you are the light
--
​
we are still touching.

Holly Coleman holds an MA in English from the University of North Florida and is pursuing a PhD in English at Old Dominion University. Creatively, she is drawn to the delicate spaces between beginnings and endings, capturing the fragility of human connection and the quiet moments of revelation that shape our understanding of the world and ourselves. This is her first poetry publication.