Monday, September 21, 2020

leaving things behind

there was a love.
years ago.

maybe decades, who had
a habit
of leaving things

behind.
a shoe.
a bag, a coat, something
sheer and black
perhaps

left between the sheets.
a brush,
a comb.

a small bottle of perfume.

calling cards?
good bye notes?

it was hard to tell, perhaps
her memory

like mine, was beginning
to fail.
but to this day,

as i look at a box of her
left things,

i really don't know.

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