" Losses

Most losses add something-
A new socket or silence,
A gap in a personal
Archipelago of islands.

We have that difference
To visit- itself
A going-on of sorts.

But there are other losses
So far beyond report
That they leave holes
In holes only

Like the ends of the
Long and lonely lives
Of castaways
Thought dead but not. "

― Kay Ryan , Elephant Rocks