by Dawn Knox
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We breathe it in.
We breathe it out.
Air.
It surrounds us.
It fills us.
And it made me wonder if it recognises our shape.
Some people believe water has a memory.
Why not air?
How much air passed into you and out again, while you were alive, Mum?
And is your shape still invisibly impressed upon it somewhere?
If I could find the space where once you’d been, I would wrap my arms around it.
But perhaps, since I’m your daughter, I have already unknowingly embraced that air, and your space in it, is now a part of me.
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