Roshambo

A haiku

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roshambo — the scattered ashes of old love letters

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What begins as a childhood game takes on a different weight beside the remains of old correspondence. The ashes suggest a choice already made, yet the gesture still carries an echo of chance, hesitation, and what might have been. In the scattered fragments, there is both release and the faint persistence of memory.

First published on NaHaiWriMo.

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