May 2023
Bio Note: A crisis in midlife re-ignited my childhood love of writing poetry, which I had thought lost forever. Since then I’ve published poems in Amethyst Review, Untold Volumes, Ekstasis, and elsewhere.
Author's Note: This prose poem was written as part of a challenge to recount a memory in exactly 100 words, in response to the prompt "a happy reunion."
Author's Note: This prose poem was written as part of a challenge to recount a memory in exactly 100 words, in response to the prompt "a happy reunion."
Reunion
You’re there already, at a round table near the back of the busy restaurant. Bright colors and mismatched tableware, Vermont casual chic. Sweet and savory smells fade away, the chatter of the brunchtime crowd goes unheard. Only you in focus.
You stand up, “sorry” in the set of your shoulders, hope and longing in your eyes. All the hardness from last time gone, all the dark fury. The angry stranger who wore your face, gone. It’s safe to enter your arms again.
What do the diners think of this lovers’ reunion amid the Sunday morning pancakes?
Doesn’t matter. You’re back.
©2023 Lory Widmer Hess
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