Updated: Nov 1, 2022
Carving the memories of you into poetry.
Yellow paper
with blue lines.
Chicken scratch handwriting.
Big wet blobs
where tears hit like a rainstorm,
crashing against the letters.
Uncrossing the t’s,
smudging the i’s.
Shaking hands crease the poem;
fold it carefully.
Paper airplane.
Hoping the thought of you would vanish,
carried away by the wind.
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