Art and Music by Mike Neff. 5.23.2021. There is warmth in the isolation that comes with grief. Pain becomes an amniotic vapor that keeps you safe, feeds you, comforts you. You don't want to let it go, because the pain is the last connecting thread to what was lost. The architecture of your isolation can be a womb, where a new destiny is born, or a tomb, where the walls become overgrown with all you have to offer the world, but don't. Don't stay too long. No one pushes you out of this one. twitter.com/mkeneff