Today I challenge you to take your inspiration, like our featured
interviewee did in the chapbook she co-authored with Ross Gay, from the
act of letter-writing. Your poem can be in the form of a letter to a
person, place, or thing, or in the form of a back-and-forth
correspondence.
Dear John
I wish I could
apologise
face to face with you
for taking your name,
your life
(though I didn't kill
you
I took your college
place,
your family,
claimed your history as
my own)
but we'll never meet
again.
Maybe one day,
I'll come clean;
tell the truth about
That Night
and maybe give you
peace.
Salt
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