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| Issue 30: | Sept. 2025 |
| Cheribun: | 99 words |
By Colleen M. Farrelly
Memory Box
I sip a lemonade on the patio, exhausted from purging another room full of odds and ends collected over the years. Some of it is mine; some of it was his. A lone monarch flits to-and-fro before settling on the milkweed.
a spring breeze
rustles his favorite tree
I sort through the books next—Thoreau, a book on prime numbers, his collection of Shakespeare’s works—and pause at the unfilled baby album.
forget-me-nots
By evening, my car is filled with memories I’ll pass on to someone at Goodwill.
twilight stars
Venus rises alone
against the vast expanse
—Long-listed Finalist in MacQ’s Cheribun Challenge #3
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