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Abandoned Baggage

  • Writer: Alicia Parker
    Alicia Parker
  • Jan 17, 2023
  • 1 min read


Stories muffled and swallowed up

Stories that get abandoned

Left behind like airport luggage

I wonder where things go when they are lost?

The effort of not remembering

I’m tired of myself

So I take walks in the woods

I couldn’t see the string but I knew it was there

A boat will take you back said the hawk


 
 
 

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