“I think poetry is a way of carrying grief, but it’s also a way of putting it somewhere so I don’t always have to heave it onto my back or in my body. The more I put grief in a poem, the more I am able to move freely through the world because I have named it, spoken it, and thrown it out into the sky.”
— Ada Limón, interviewed by Lauren LeBlanc for BOMB Magazine
Or just to write it out. And isn’t all writing just a little bit poetic?