Her keys still turn the lock, though she does not.Once, this hallway held more furniture than light.Under the stairs, a coat that was never mine to keep.Someone has to decide what a house remembers.Even empty, it keeps the shape of who left it.
About the acrosticA poem whose first letters, read down the page, spell a hidden word.
In an acrostic, the first letters of the lines spell something when read downward, often a name or a word the poem is about. The poem can rhyme or not, and the lines can be any length. The hidden word is the only rule.
The shape The first letter of each line, read downward, spells a word, name, or phrase.
Listen for Read down the first letters of the lines, then see how the word shapes the poem.
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Two languages, one notebook. Trusts the shorter poem.
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