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Tabby Ivy's avatar

beautiful. endings. discovery. release - of joy, acceptance.

Jesse Davis's avatar

Wonderfully written, thank you for embodying show don't tell 🫢🏻

Joy Moore's avatar

Thank you for this.

Judi Lynne Judy, M.A.'s avatar

Lovely. Western Washington? Me too. I love the parallel drawn, the language and the tears.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

So tender.

Connie Newbauer's avatar

This is beautiful!

Sam Aureli's avatar

I had to read the final two stanzas a few times before the gravity finally set in.

Writer's Corner's avatar

Achingly beautiful, painful too. Your poem awakes compassion. Endings hurts. Love, Maria