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title: What You Left Behind

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# What You Left Behind
**by Jamie Lynn Heller**

You didn’t text or call
I find instead a short illegible list -
Reminders for you? Me? Someone else?
I peer at the writing whose form I recognize
but can’t piece together

I flip through the notebook knowing 
I’m looking at what you don’t want to be seen  
Commit the open page to the pencil cup 
of my memory so I can return it the way 
you left it when – if - you come back

I smooth the crumpled sheets 
nervous you will appear and catch me 
searching for you
searching for what I haven’t found 
when you are here