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# Mourning Cup
- URL: https://www.fsm.ink/mourning-cup/
- Published: 2026-07-03T16:00:39.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-03T16:00:39.000Z
- Author: Staff
- Tags: Poetry, #Import 2026-08-03 09:59

*by Leah Maitland*

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across the span of continents, I fail correct measurements yet again  
a spray of condolences washing my mouth out in bermuda  
attempts to triangulate within the weight of loss  
verbiage that grief grinds down into dust.  
between the veins of us I find filtered  
message bottle remnants, damp  
as the touching palms and  
prayers poured from  
a sinner’s throat.  
it drips flowing-tear beads in the bloomed eulogy of I love you.  
you may sip that, chalice-sweet, my notes of lethe and violet.

> Leah Maitland is a poet out of Green Bay WI. Their work has previously been seen in ALT Magazine and Illumination Journal at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, as well as *fsm*.