Published May 15th, 2025
by Anna Forbes
Still
think about you now
even as we settle
into the quietness of lives
lonely and unremarkable.
Remember that time
in the hospital?
I never loved you more.
A bona-fide festival
of cut-price gardenias.
Forever, in my mind
the blueness of fluorescence
perversely and involuntarily associated
with the theme of wanting out.
Through the sadness of those corridors
their pale-gridded ceilings
I'd be a ghost with you.
Playing at being innocent
is the only form of refuge we can have
as the day winds down.
About the Poet
Anna Forbes resides in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Read the poet's biography on Anna Forbes's Artist Page.
This poem is included in Poetry World #12,
published in the Wax Poetry and Art Library.
Previously published in Edinburgh Poetry Magazine:
Fire
by Emily Arnold-Fernández
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