I Hope You Like the Card
The teardrops in this Man Ray photograph
look like drops of fresh rain, don’t they?
That’s how the message starts. It’s a card
she made with a black-and-white
photograph she’d found in an old calendar—
blobs of silver paint around the picture
to mirror the teardrops on the woman’s face.
I want you to know, she writes, how I’m feeling.
And I hope you like the card.
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Eugene Datta is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection Water & Wave (Redhawk, 2024). His recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Dalhousie Review, Main Street Rag, Common Ground Review, Rust & Moth, Hamilton Stone Review, and elsewhere. Born and raised in India, he lives in Aachen, Germany.
