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Left Overs

I wrote this after washing dishes by hand one day.

She’s the last one alive who remembers. Her hair is grey and shining. And her skin is barely wrinkled, a rose-pink that’s also petal-soft.

A poem about the things we remember and those we forget.

Are we
who we were

A work of allegorical fiction following a girl named Glauca as she navigates a world on the brink of the ocean while contending with memory and loss.