At port in Hawaii

Dear friend Adabel,

I am learning fast, even tho all I may do is watch and listen. Your father is fair with me. He is tutoring me to read faster and right better. I have tasted pineapples which you wood like I think. Whales are bigger than our houses. Tell my mother and father I am tuff as a shark and will bring them treasures. One for you to.

Your friend,

Seth
 
 
 

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Kristin LaTour’s full length collection What Will Keep Us Alive, and her most recent chapbook Mend (e-book, free online and in the link) are published by Sundress Publications. Her poems have been published in Rhino, Massachusetts Quarterly, Tinderbox Poetry, Adana, and other journals. She lives in Aurora, IL.