Post-It

by Melissa McGeary

I saved a scrap of paper that you wrote my name on,
probably to remind yourself that I exist

& i weep at your perfect handwriting
each curve and loop a fingerprint of thought

I have saved them all, the scraps and post-its
hoping to create something out of nothing

a canvas of mundane moments, a portal
to an untested universe where we exist in gray pencil lead

this ink-stained affair that exists only in the margins,
every crinkle a memory that forgot to happen.

Melissa McGeary is a librarian from NJ.

return to POETRY!

“… I have saved them all, the scraps and post-its
hoping to create something out of nothing…”