The Emails

Carrie Jones
1 min readMar 22, 2022

A poem

“The Emails” a poem about Xane

The blank emptiness of an email chain,

The lack of inflection, the abyss

Where good thoughts die

And fail to rise again,

Where the failings of a board, a person, a life,

Cover themselves up

like face masks in a pandemic.

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Carrie Jones

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