answering the phone

you always
sound
excited
breathless
as if from
a race
jumping hurdles
to make it
before
the last ring
and i am
the prize
waiting
on the line

2 thoughts on “answering the phone

  1. I love the aesthetics of how this looks in terms of the short raspy lines but also the images it conjures up. The lack of punctuation or capital letters adds a lovely softness to it.

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