Dear—
Love Letter Nicole Buzzelli Love Letter Nicole Buzzelli

Dear—

This is a love letter. Maybe also a grief letter. Maybe, though, same-coin.

This letter is addressed to you if you want it to be, and it's not if you don't. I think with grief, we sometimes just need a witness. I write this letter in case you do, too. It's been a really hard week. Mostly, I've been coping. My heart's been about the breaking lately. Once this week, it happened that my heart broke all the way down. But then ten minutes later, I thought up a riddle: Fuck, fuck, fuck, how far down does down go if that down wasn't all the way down?

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Heartwood
Poetry Nicole Buzzelli Poetry Nicole Buzzelli

Heartwood

Here is what I know of loneliness:
Go to the brick coffee shop underground
and sit in the middle.
Listen to the melody of conversation
wax and wane like tides
like feelings
like moons.
Now, pivot. Face away.

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