Seeing
what kills
your parents.
What whittles
them down
like a pencil.
What can’t
be stopped.
What plucks
away at their
frayed strings.
What they
can’t eat.
What brings
them instantly
to tears.
Or rage.
Or nothing.
Watching their
faces disappear
then pop back.
Watching them
get off track.
Hearing them
Wait. Waiting
with them.
Writing letters
to relatives
who never
hear from you.
—Published 12th February 2019
About Jordan Potter
Jordan Potter is a writer and actor from Huntington Beach, CA. When he isn’t writing poetry or screenplays, he produces recitations and dramatic reenactments of poems through his studio, Blank Verse Films.