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Directional by Maeve Quinn

December 30, 2021December 30, 2021 Maeve Quinn

I eat tenderness, breathe love.
I scoop my beating heart from my chest,
lay it to rest under the black walnut tree.
I am tired of writing poems about you.
One day I’ll come back for my heart
and it will have forgotten you. Then
I will say, “Welcome home.”

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