Enveloping Exchanges

My sturdy, sharpened tool expels my deepest thoughts,

protected and surrounded by tall card stock.
A private place where intimacy not only exists,

but thrives, grows and persists.
Left to marinate until the next response, if it comes.

Every exchange carries the potent potential to be the last, making every scratch of my pencil and your pen

a final cast.
Enveloping us.
Sealing our shared thoughts in a forest far away.

Nothing between but the stretches of our imaginations, indulging and gorging upon the impossible,

come what may.

Reviews

[Saoirse K.]

nothing like a good old fashioned letter
the care and effort taken to hand write a note
to pour out thoughts and ideas meant to last and sustain the other
until the next "if it comes"
as you allude to
the power of such written prose sealed within envelopes
multiplies over the distance and time it takes to travel door to door
so much more in it than emojis and txt slang
great piece

[Kristina Yoder]

Thank you so much for reading and for your thoughtful review.