Cali-graphy
Where have all the love letters gone?
“Romantic love is a beautiful thing under the right circumstances. But those circumstances are so specific and rare.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, One True Loves
Meeting the love of your life
through
a
letter
halfway across the country
addressed vaguely
ATTN: Hockey Office Staff
mailroom clerk
absent
so you
father
opened it
she had such perfect penmanship
replied
in your kind way
how one gets into hockey journalism
instead she
dropped out of college
married the sport
your championship
ring
the wedding band
lost to the ocean
and what is a daughter to do
the product of postage stamps
before even they became
forever
but wonder
if my own
southpaw
scrawl
is to blame
for the fact that love
never
fit
me
right
a dotted
T
a star-crossed
eye
practiced cursive
the way most children said their prayers
but I'm a lefty
so it was smearing
as I wrote
my
words
About the Creator
Cali Loria
Over punctuating, under delivering.
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