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Postcard from Chicago, except I write it after I’ve already come home

Maybe if I sent postcards like this, they would still reach you
faster than my texts. I’m sorry that I pore over those pixels as
if Delivered means deliverance. Skeleton, box, mirror: a lesson in
architecture from the actor-turned-docent. Squinting at the Monadnock,
I thought of you and your cooked-earth facade. How heavy must a load be
until it feels like salvation? Yesterday I bought you soup-shaped candy
because I knew you’d like the tin packaging. Promise me that you won’t
pretend it tastes good. Fate is a jealous tyrant—and if I loved her, I would write
her a postcard too. I’d draw a picture of us, but I can’t quite get your hands right.

Angela Rona Estavillo is a Filipino American writer working primarily in poetry and creative nonfiction. She is an incoming graduate student in English at James Madison University. Previously, she was a Writing Fellow at Towson University and served as an assistant nonfiction editor for volume 71 of Grub Street. A dual U.S.-New Zealand citizen, she currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland.

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