Andrea's Ars Poetica

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The absence
of your name signed illegibly

at the bottom of a card
you won’t buy
at the dollar store

makes me pull
at piles of your letters
(pictures of kittens and flowers,
even the pope)
I’ve kept in a shoebox
to run my fingers
over the familiar scrawl

Written in response to

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