Her Name in My Phone

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

My granddaughter's name appears with three bright hearts, a code she chose at twelve. Now she calls from an apartment where I have never stood, tells me about work, a plant that will not live, someone she might love. I listen as the child in the photograph becomes the woman on the line without leaving either place.
57 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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