Mixed media assemblage, 14” x 14” x 3”

Falling Apart 

By Kathryn Fishman-Weaver

You send another pink heart emoji. 

So what if your messaging app looks like 

a Valentine’s Day sticker sheet? 

What else is there to do?  

And maybe that's it. 

Maybe the way we hold each other up is through

moments just like these, ones that whisper—

You are loved.  

—hot coffee in a thin hospital cup, 

arms linked as you walk to dinner, 

that great song that still comes on the radio, 

or even this pink blinking heart, the one 

that lights up an otherwise dark room and says,

Hey, you are not alone.