My grandmother turned mad, not suddenly,
but the way dusk enters a familiar room,
softening corners, shifting shadows,
making the known slightly unfamiliar.
She began to speak in verses then,
as if rhymes were the only vessel grief could inhabit,
as if ordinary sentences could no longer
carry the weight of what she had lost.
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