Say It Slowly

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Say it slowly: thank you for the Tuesday rides, for cutting apples thin, for standing in the doorway until my train was gone. Say it slowly: I noticed more than I admitted. I kept the smallest kindnesses like buttons in a jar. Say it now. Gratitude grows heavier when carried past the house where it belongs.
56 words · 13 lines · Free Verse
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