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Moving Day

Cara Chanoine

The dark spot on the sun-bleached bedroom wall
was in the shape of the way you sleep;
legs spread eagled,
one arm draped protectively across your eyes.
I wanted the security deposit back
so I had to repaint.

Instead of helping me pack,
you were hundreds of miles
away,
in Mexico
with a whore.
You left me in a hurricane,
and you never returned
to claim your wreckage.

When I packed,
I cast your ghosts into a pile to burn:
stray black socks,
bookmarked novels,
the dishes you bought because they were blue.
I choked on the ashes while I
dragged the brush across the wall,
not stopping until my
last
best
memory of you was smothered.

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