January 2018
After teaching at a college in South Florida for thirty years, I retired, and my wife and I moved halfway across the country. Some of my poems have appeared recently in such journals as The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, San Pedro Review, and South Florida Poetry Journal. Check out my author's page on Facebook or go to my blog at http://www.michaelminassian.com
The Children Send Postcards
The children send postcards
to their parents, missing
since birth, lost in a parking
lot behind the empty hospital,
the one that used to be a church
and before that the town jail,
built on the ruins of a newspaper
office that once published
the names of unwed mothers
and the anonymous fathers
buried on boot hill, the old
wooden crosses leaning into each
other as if they would hear
what the other confessed –
no one goes up there anymore,
not even to deliver the mail.
-originally published in Fourth & Sycamore, August 2016.
© 2017 Michael Minassian
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