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The Place of Reunions
By Sam Hendrian
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Gas station clerk scanning a Coke

With the weight of the world slipping out of her eyes

Enough to make me care beyond the change she hands back

And wish hello wasn’t the same as goodbye.

 

I’ll see you in the place of reunions

Where fleeting conversations turn to everlasting moments

From grocery stores to summer camps to overnight guests

Who shared more than they ever expected to share.

 

Friend of a friend in town for two days

Doling out inside jokes and insider secrets

On how to merge innocence with pending wisdom,

Wanderlust with settling down.

 

I’ll see you in the place of reunions

Where fleeting conversations turn to everlasting moments

From grocery stores to summer camps to overnight guests

Who shared more than they ever expected to share.

 

Campfire convergence under the stars

Based on the whim of a connection

While pondering perpendicular pathways

Despite parallel dreams.

 

I’ll see you in the place of reunions

Where fleeting conversations turn to everlasting moments

From grocery stores to summer camps to overnight guests

Who shared more than they ever expected to share.

 

‘Til then, dear stranger.

‘Til then, dear friend.

Image by Amelia Bartlett

Sam Hendrian is an LA-based filmmaker/poet striving to foster empathy through art. He has been published in several small literary magazines and writes personalized poems for people every Sunday outside of Chevalier's Books, LA's oldest bookstore. He has also just finished his first feature film Terrificman, an ode to the power of human kindness. 

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