Émilie Galindo
Putting the Keep in Keepsakes
You leave / but it doesn’t leave you / tax-included price tags are tinged with mauve ease / unshocked
outlets seem bland / lorries & roads have shrunk to look like they belong on a car rug playmat / &
words fall flat without their nasal 3Dness / differences are not circled and narrowed down to the hole
of bagel / they fill in the gaps / help you navigate between conceptions of ‘normal’ to something closer
to the truth / it’s also there on the wall / framed by a frothy fog of nostalgia / and embroidered
somewhere in you / not only in the mind / as an almost somatic strength too.
Émilie Galindo
a UX designer living in Annapolis, Maryland, finds comfort in rainy days and the written word. When not crafting digital experiences, she’s immersed in poetry, often with her cat by her side. Her work has been published in Humana Obscura, Emerge Literary Journal, and Bodega Magazine, among other journals.