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January 2022
Michael Minassian
mikialminassian@gmail.com / www.michaelminassian.com
Bio Note: I'm a retired English Professor spending my time writing, taking the occasional photograph, trying to follow the Dharma. My poetry collections A Matter of Timing, Time is Not a River, and Morning Calmare all available on Amazon.

She Never Said Goodbye

My friend wrote poetry,
taping her poems
to the wall 
and refrigerator door.
 
She once told me,
If I wanted to go to heaven
I’d send God a note saying:
Wish you were here.
 
Claiming she had no religion,
nor wanting to be reborn,
she only asked to be released
and kept one suitcase packed,
 
joking about carrying
her baggage 
wherever she went.
 
One day, she was gone
and on the table
a napkin and coffee cup
smeared with red lipstick
next to a postcard:
He’s dead. 
Mom said to come home.
 
In the drawer, a broken
heart, still bleeding.
Appeared in Poppy Road Review and in my book Time is Not a River.
©2022 Michael Minassian
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