One Lifeboat Fewer

Let's workshop this poem about cherished memories becoming dimmer and less tangible due to the absence of a significant individual who once helped breathe life and meaning into them

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One Lifeboat Fewer

Memories dim
into vulnerability 
too soon after the flame 
tssk of the sharing soul—

there no longer 
to activate them
with less than a nudging
glance; to flush and flesh

them out; to verify
or challenge playback 
by you (inheritor
of unexpected poverty). 

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