FAREWELL

The email arrived - Subject: Please Call Me

From a name

That barely rippled the surface of

Recollection.

Inside 3 lines -

One a phone number

Then a promise of a poem to follow

Then another a name.

The surface raised into waves and surfed into

recollection.

I knew what this was about.

Right above that email,

The one with the poem.

I read it - two times.

It was beautif…