Reading · I Write Hard Things

There's the girl she was before children

And the girl after

There’s the girl who grew up in California

There’s the girl who moved to Texas

One of them was happy

One of them has moments of happiness

The girl makes an appearance when she goes home to visit

If you look closely

you may see glimpses of her in her natural habitat

with her first love —the Pacific

watching the sunset

On her most recent trip home I saw her again

I saw her clearly

more vividly

more awake and alive than she’s been in years

To be honest

I had wondered if she was dead

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