http://slow.writerscafe.org/kwestion22 The original writings of author kwestion22 en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1776070266 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 An extremely short poem. I'll probably add to it later but I wrote it while in a treatment center when asked to write a poem about something or other and not being able to find the words was painful. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/kwestion22/1135534/ I slipped under the invisible firstlayer of the skin of existence the year my mother died. I was only agirl  - I was nine years old, and my mother's death was thefirst of a string of unnameable events that left me voiceless,stunned into troubled silence that threatened to engulf me... http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/kwestion22/1135466/