Thursday, December 19, 2019

The Poet


I stood next to her 
at a poetry reading 
that we both arrived to 
too early, 
our shoulders grazing 
as we swayed. 
Green hair hallelujah 
and a face full of 
metal constellations, 
she told me that 
her little brother cried 
the day she left, 
made her promise to 
come back and 
create something new 
together. 
We traded names of poets 
like baseball cards, 
like speaking their lines 
would conjure them 
into our midst. 


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