Poetry By Jessica Whipple

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Sometimes I Google You
 
There are names I know
like a stairwell knows an echo
poems I can’t write
 
an echo in a stairwell
is a poem: footsteps
on pavement
 
footsteps on pavement like
fingers on a keyboard
I search a name
 
in keying the letters
you and your name
are real again
 
in an instant your name
becomes a prayer:
“Let me find nothing.”
 
Google speaks no evil
internet silence
shhh, can you hear it?
 
in silence we climbed
do you remember?
I’m at the top now…                             
 
we stormed that brutalist column
you have to see it up here now--
there’s so much open air
 
up here is the rest of ever
in open air I’m steady
sounds of traffic below, day and night
 
but steady is temporary, I know
it changes in a day and a night
so listen, just for now listen


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Jessica Whipple writes for adults and children from her home in Lancaster. Her debut picture book titled ENOUGH IS... will be published spring 2023 by Tilbury House, and another titled I THINK I THINK A LOT is forthcoming from Free Spirit Publishing. To see more of her work, visit www.AuthorJessicaWhipple.com or follow her on Twitter @JessicaWhippl17.

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