The ocean air sits like a weighted blanket over me<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our last first day she says<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Can you believe it<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have been busy bees pollinating flowers<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We have been planting seeds in neighbors\u2019 yards<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Feeding our cats and dogs and bunnies<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The questions are <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In permanent ink<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you still be my friend next year<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the year after that<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Will you visit me at my new school<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or ever come back to this one<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But no one mentions the bold letters<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Because it is one of many<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unspoken rules<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where the answers <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Could erase the time I jumped off the rock at the beach<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or the time I had a pizza date<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But I have to trust that I have connected<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the right people <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And that our time is not over<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know what we will look like<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or who we will be but a kaleidoscope<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of butterflies will reassure us that we are<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not taking off<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not landing<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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