SUSANNE NILSSON VIA FLICKR
Rewritten
by Samantha Albala I know it might hurt if you told me what you really think of me, but I feel a deeper ache to never be able to know why you vanished boot tracks in the mud followed by tire tracks followed by my pause two dogs looking with me at the heavy empty space it will hurt if I ever get to know what you really think of me it does hurt that I don’t know what I did wrong a tingling through each finger believe in a mineral deposit rushing downstream I am pulled and still find I am not moving hurt from what I assume you think of me hurt that I am wrong
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I let the pain wash to the surface as if I had been anywhere near a beach imagined my body a shoreline collecting everything that couldn’t move with the water fast enough come with me broken muscle come with me softened shattered glass you don’t think of me been wasting so much time gathering home in lost trinkets ignoring the barking at my back as I bend down to examine where I am standing I have been here before remembering something... think think again of anything else Samantha Albala is a Boulder-based poet, gobbling up horizons and babbling about road trips, tea and anatomical hearts. See more writing at samanthaalbala.contently.com.
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BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE