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(SPRING 2021) Laptop Daydreams | Elizabeth Howlett

Updated: Jan 20, 2022

Sometimes

when a day at the computer is long

and the voice on the other side of the screen is droning on about

how to find when a boat enters a circular pond,

I light a candle.


It’s lilac.

A fragrance that reminds me

of summer at the top of the hill

and my dad bending the tree branches

for me to get a smell.


My feet were dirty and hot from the pavement

that was cooking in the sun.

I would draw with melting ice cubes

on the cement

and yell for mom to come see

before it dried up.


The candle will do

before summer comes

and I get to visit

the lilac tree again.


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