Childhood Speaking to Me/Olivia Augustian

You set me down and forgot about me, 
like a story 
left on a nightstand: discarded. 
But the way you left my pages 
all marked up and dog-eared 
told me you saw something in me 
worth coming back to… 

This poem by Olivia Augustian won 1st Place in our 2022 Literary Awards.

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