Before you returned
Before you returned from treatment I rearranged our room: turned the bed ninety degrees switched the nightstands. I didn’t want you to come home to see that everything has changed nothing is familiar. On the other hand, I wanted you to see that everything has changed nothing is familiar.
Credit
Copyright © 2018 by Kayte Young. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on October 10, 2018, by the Academy of American Poets.
About this Poem
“I wrote this when I noticed that a simple physical action could hold multiple meanings and that I, too, could intend both at once—that I could offer compassion and comfort while signaling a boundary and a sea change.”
—Kayte Young
Author
Kayte Young
Kayte Young is the author of eleven (Ledge Mule Press, 2018).
Date Published
10/10/2018