“Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer” by Tara Betts

Never Dreamed You’d Leave in Summer

Janet lies on the floor
plays
Stevie,
recites
poems,
plays
grief
as
notes
play.
Janet lies on the floor.

Tara Betts
7/4/2019

Photo courtesy of Glitter Guts

Tara Betts is the author of Break the Habit and Arc & Hue. She’s a co-editor of The Beiging of America: Personal Narratives about Being Mixed Race in the 21st Century and editor of the critical edition of Philippa Duke Schuyler’s memoir Adventures in Black and White. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

 

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