Your black Converse high tops
and my wedding dress,
in suspended repose
at the bottom of a plastic bin,
sleep close together
inside the bedroom closet,
like Miss Emily and her beau.
Three years after your death,
you are no longer a rose,
just the ancient dust of skin
and velvet, evaporating
until the air has eaten its fill.
Leah Mueller is an indie writer and local journalist from Bisbee, Arizona. Her work appears in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Brilliant Flash Fiction, Citron Review, The Spectacle, New Flash Fiction Review, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She has been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net. Leah appears in the 2022 edition of Best Small Fictions. Her fourteenth book, "Stealing Buddha" will be published by Anxiety Press in 2024. Website: www.leahmueller.org.
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