Santa Fe Poetry Broadside: Ann-Marie Oskolkoff, Heavens Gate

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Ann-Marie Oskolkoff

Heavens Gate

After the postal carrier comes
at 1:30,

I'll run to my box
and gather my letters from
you.

I'll savor them
before opening.

Smell the paper's bleach
and the ink. I'll examine

the stamp and feel
the weight.
I'll turn the envolope over and
over in my hand, letting what's inside

shift.
Shift, like your life shifted

and I imagine what you might write
if you'd never been swept in to a cult.

I imagine what it might be like to read these
Ghost Letters.

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