Kelley, Meghan E

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Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine Volume 68 Issue 1 Volume 68: Hope and Healing Article 2 2021 What's Left for the World to Say? Meghan E. Kelley None Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Kelley, Meghan E. (2021) "What's Left for the World to Say?," Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine: Vol. 68: Iss. 1, Article 2. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol68/iss1/2 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. It has been accepted for inclusion in Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. For more information, please contact kyle.morgan@humboldt.edu. 6 TOYON \2What’s Left for the World to Say?Meghan E. KelleyWhen the mountain’s echo shouts to the sea,When edges of waves break through plastic surface,When yellow foam and sulfur sky muffle a distant sob that bends into soundless space—There is no satellite to sense a quake’s body blow.There is no whale to make music from stray memory. There is no sand to slip through an empty hourglass. Once the drone of flies cannot float in air,Once the hiss of cicadas cannot sound,Once all the earth that’s left is closedin a single casket—where do you bury a blue, dead planet? 

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