Letters I Never Sent
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May 18, 2026
Letters I Never Sent
The drawer still smells of cedar and unfinished sentences. I wrote the first letter on a night when the rain would not stop, and the last on a morning when the sun arrived too early. Between them lies a country of almosts.
I never sent them because sending would have required an address, and you had already moved past the place where I knew to find you. So the letters became a conversation with absence.
Now and then I read one aloud to the empty room. It is not sad, exactly. It is the sound of a door closing gently in a house where no one else lives.
Comments (3)
The imagery in the second paragraph is beautiful.
I needed to read this today.
Your voice feels like a familiar room.