2011 Student Writing Awards Booklet - Santa Fe Community College

Poetry
Honorable Mention
Leia Barnett
embryos of absence
embryos of absence,
his soft, labored breath-of-sleep,
startled white light of dawn,
barking dog echoes
through the corridor of morning,
pale glow of
warm bodies,
dressing in silence,
one shoe,
then the other,
waivers of departure,
alone,
the frame of a frosty windshield,
ribbons of breath,
gray mountain arches,
his folded hands round my hips.
Goodbye was never enough.
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