The Language of X

What if grief had a dialect? Or joy a grammar?

Choose an abstract or emotional concept, grief, lust, silence, survival, and imagine it has its own language.

Write a poem in the “language of X.” Let syntax, rhythm, and metaphor reflect what that feeling knows.

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