By James Aitchison

It was our last phone call.
“I have some cognitive issues,”
my cousin told me.  “If I go
quiet suddenly, and you 
don’t hear me say anything,
I’m still here.”
The silence said more
than he ever could.

James Aitchison is an Australian author and poet whose work has appeared via the Australian Poetry Anthology, Aesthetica, Poetry for Mental Health, Adelaide Literary, Literary Yard, Poppy Road Review, and many others.

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