Specific Details

A Poem

Photo by Christopher Martyn on Unsplash

I am starting to forget small details
Where did you go to school, what was
your favorite book, how your voice sounded
that night you called me from New Jersey
and I had to sit in the car so my family wouldn’t hear
the way my voice softened around the phone.
What was your reason for not coming to Seattle?
I have started to forget the specifics