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Farewell
by Hannah J. Sassaman
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goodbyes linger on the breath,
or did for us: dribbling
around our mouths like a
leftover kiss, both messy
and sad. we said goodbye at
a train station, the floor littered
with store-bought farewells
in coffee cups and sweet pretzels.
i found a way to muffle sadness
in the same trash. i adjusted my bag.
you pushed back a strand of my hair.
i caught the proverbial midnight train,
and read conrad like a vampire
through the back-cities of the state.
(things are forgotten on train seats,
lost through sealed emergency windows.)
Copyright © 1999
Hannah J Sassaman
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Hannah Jane Sassaman is a sophomore at the University
of Pennsylvania.
She has been featured in the print journal Vox Humana,
and the online
poetry workshop Zeugma. She lives in a haunted house with an
attentioned-starved cat and eight other disillusioned college students. |
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