The Long Goodbye

I hand you a memory
and watch you taste
its unfamiliarity.

When you go,
I will place
these fractured
moments
in a box
and store them
in the attic.

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Lesley Rogers Hobbs (she/her) is an Irish writer and artist living in the Pacific Northwest, US. She loves popcorn, sunshine, Pink Floyd, and the ocean. Her poetry has appeared online and in print, including in The Ekphrastic Review, Spillway, The Hyacinth Review, Querencia Press and Cirque.