It’s too hot to cook,
but I don’t drink,
so tortellini will have to do.
He’s got beef with aging
and erased birthday
from the message I left
months ago.
Happy plus his name
memorialized in my best handwriting
on a dry erase.
I don’t understand why he keeps pieces of me.
He won’t say anything,
but I have fresh basil,
so tortellini will have to do.
-Melissa Donley