Regarding Hemingway

Regarding Hemingway

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Hemingway once wrote,
“…there is no friend as loyal as a book.”
Perhaps he never knew Andrea,
or looked into the circumference of her face.

For it is there that my sentences run…
where the pages of Webster fail to categorically define
the introduction of her smile.
Where a myriad of words tether me
to a Microsoft page,
and I am bound to the wafts of her laughter
like Hemingway’s fisherman was - to the sea.

“…no friend as loyal as a book.”
Perhaps he never knew Andrea.

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© 2015 Kelly Scheppers

Author's Note

Andrea was my son's Kindergarten teacher. We were the best of friends, until she was tragically killed by a drunk driver. It is her laughter that remains with me...