Never Hello
written by: Timothy A. Agnew
my neighbor absconded
and i never said goodbye
wave to her as she rolled away
or blink as the brake lights faded
every day now
i see the vacant porch
suspended in darkness by eight
under velvet shadows by dawn
and i wonder where she went
and if she knows herself
she left an extension cord
bleeding from the doorframe
where she once hung lights
that no one saw
because they were too busy seeing
and remnants of plants
once a jungle for my escape
reduced to a crispy gecko
left between windowpanes
yet i saw her
i saw her before goodbye
and never hello
Timothy Agnew won a Bayboro Prize for fiction (University of South Florida), and his short stories have appeared in Spillwords Press, Illumination, the Roanoke Review, Skylark (Purdue University Calumet), the book series A Cup of Comfort, and others. He is the co-author of Kinesiology for Manual Therapies, 2nd Edition (Handspring Publishing) and author of Invisible Parents: Secrets of Special Needs Parents, A Book of Hope (Patriot Press).
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