@dawit
Dawit Bekele
Works the night shift so someone else's daylight gets easier.
WritesFree verseSestina
Joined 26 September 2026 · 7 poems · 3 readings received · 4 written · 1 follower
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4 readings written · 3 received
My mother never wrote anything down either, just repeated it until it stuck or it didn't. You got the harder version though, the half-written kind you have to keep guessing at forever. We're both just out here inheriting homework.
The good pens in the second drawer. That's it. That's the whole grief, hidden in an object nobody else would think to look for.
"Everything in it still works." I felt that in my hands. We write the same father, I think, from different rooms.
"Smiling as if she already knew" — that's the line that reaches forward forty years and taps you on the shoulder. Gorgeous.