• Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.

    Jackie Kay: Loss isn't an absence after all. It is a presence. A strong presence right next to me. I look at it. It doesn't look like anything, that's what is so strange. It just fits in.
    Jackie Kay (2016). “Trumpet: Picador Classic”, p.18, Pan Macmillan