lives were led,
you stayed in town
I moved away
and my last memory of you is
a spring break visit to your apartment.
You had the second baby,
the toddler ran about
and you were busy and attentive to those little ones,
but the place was dark and small and all the light
was outside
and all the happy laughter was also
outside,
and I remember feeling grateful
as I drove away in my mother’s car.
Karen Warinsky has published in various anthologies and literary magazines including the 2019 Mizmor Anthology. She is the author of Gold in Autumn (2020), Sunrise Ruby (2022), and is a previous finalist in the Montreal International Poetry Contest. She loves to kayak and organize poetry readings.
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