Anticipation

Elizabeth Helmich
Chalkboard
Published in
1 min readDec 7, 2017

a one-line poem in response to this prompt by Harper Thorpe for Chalkboard

Photo by Florian Zeh on Unsplash

She never understood
how parched felt until locked
eyes outlined wildest desert,
pretzel tongues devoured themselves,
tribal heartstrings suspended
over an eternal oasis,
waiting
for his
hello.

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Elizabeth Helmich
Chalkboard

Holes and a series of rabbits — my debut poetry collection — now available! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089RRRGXX/