When We Return

Poetry by Erin Jamieson

do you think
in pictures 
sliced in
thirds,
stilted
sepia
lines 
we draw
on crooked
train tracks
                                            cheese
                                            and crackers
                                            your tanned
                                            hand on 
                                            mine
                                            as if 
                                            to say
                                            we'll
                                            return
                                            but 

we only
do now, 
our bodies
wrinkled
and stained
my dented
lunch box
I once
shared
with you 
now I share
with your
ghost

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Erin Jamieson’s (She/Her) writing has been published in over 100 literary magazines and nominated twice for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of Net. She is the author of four poetry chapbooks, including Fairytales (Bottle Cap Press) and a historical novel, Sky of Ashes, Land of Dreams (Type Eighteen Books), and two poetry collections. She has a forthcoming MG Fantasy novel with Emberwick Press.