this is the very best story that I know

All the poems I wrote for you
the ones you never read
I wrote them all the same,
hoping only that
in striking out amongst the words
I would find the
Rumpelstiltskin magic
of your name.

See you tomorrow, you.

 

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Categorized as musing

By Eleanor Jackson

Eleanor Jackson is a Filipino Australian poet, performer, arts producer, cyclist, writer, gal about town, feminist, freewheeler, and friend.

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