“Graven in My Heart,” Liahona, October 2021
Graven in My Heart
The author lives in Utah.
Photograph from Getty Images
I still count to five
when I gather forks
to set the dinner table
or when I calculate
the brownie cuts
so that all have equal parts.
I still count you in
my unconscious movement,
the momentary minutia of my days.
You are absent
but not from my thoughts
or pulse
or breath.