i’m planting poems between

the cracks of legal verbiage

after the Department classifies

its redactions as absolute disclosure

that I have a right to information

circumscribed by negative space
bureaucratic knowing takes

precedence over limbic resonance

& when those faithful witnesses

have journeyed, absence becomes

testament. your death germinates

sentences of serrated consequence
for i am the generous steward

of splintered grief herewith excised:

without access to further information

our client is not able to verify the truth of her

childhood & so is deprived

of her own

personal story