Catch up Post: Day 15 NaPoWriMo

I'm playing catch up. Even though I hand wrote all of these poems the day of, over the weekend I didn't have a laptop to transfer them to my blog.

Here's my poem of in between for day 15 of NaPoWriMo.

Green Card

after we wrote with black ink

on each form

wrote out the check

notarized prints and copies

gathered leaves and leaves

of paper, bound them

together

after we packaged

and sent them

we waited

between uncertainty and doubt

between yes or no

between after and before

waited with our maybes

our fear and hope

prepared ourselves

to help with the waiting

busied ourselves

to pretend we did not wait

prepared ourselves

for giving up

prepared ourselves as if

our bodies both teetered

on the edge

of a canyon

we waited days and months

in the after and before

for status

authorization

for a stamp of approval

for a card

not green

but with a barcode

with your face

your name

your new

beginning