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Monday's Poem


© 2013 Juliet Wilson

Based in Edinburgh, UK, Juliet is a writer, adult education tutor and conservation volunteer. She blogs at Crafty Green Poet (http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com) and edits the online poetry journal Bolts of Silk (http://boltsofsilk.blogspot.com). Her poetry chapbook Unthinkable Skies was published in 2010.

"Return" was published in Unthinkable Skies and in Envoi magazine Issue 133.

 

Return

You travelled alone
posting pieces of time
in sea-views and lines—
rewording your life.

My only map
a patchwork of postcards
with scribbled notes.

Home.

Salt on my tongue
I taste the tidemark
of your travels
explore you back from absence.

Abandon distance.