The Diploma Folder

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The folder is heavier than the single page inside. It carries alarm clocks, late buses, the class nearly failed, and the friend who sent notes from a hospital waiting room. At graduation, the name is announced once. The work behind it is plural. She closes the folder, finds her family in the crowd, and steps toward whatever has no syllabus.
60 words · 12 lines · Free Verse
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