She sneezed literal achoos,
three short bursts,
tone rising on the second syllable,
musical onomatopoeia.
Her canary yellow shirt,
hoop earrings with chakra rainbow beads,
a laptop with kissing Stitches
create poetic perfection –
a rainbow reflected in the spilled foam of a latte
on a rainy Sunday morning
when my heart has just been broken.
I wish I could tell her I love her
without weighing her with guilt of the
verbal volley gone unreturned.

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