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Male box

by Steve Michaels

The brown paper package
sterile priority mail label
opened I find

my shirt inside, laundered
the book - not dog eared - perhaps
ironed and vacuumed
removing errant DNA

no note.

the lack of you
is you

04/17/2014

Posted on 04/17/2014
Copyright © 2024 Steve Michaels

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Kristina Woodhill on 04/22/14 at 03:34 PM

I keep coming back to this one. It's almost like a Chinese laundry visit where everything in the bag(regardless)got washed and starched. Those last three lines sum this person up in so few words - almost as though they were never there.

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