Poetry Contemporary Melancholy 1 min Mature Audience

iPhone

Ann Garrett

Ann Garrett is an author of fiction and nonfiction for children and adults. She loves travel, kids, animals and great conversations. Happily married, she lives and writes in CA. "iPhone" was originally published in Time of Singing. It is now a part of Short Édition's series, The Current.

Originally published in Time of Singing

Phone on
Enter passcode:
****
Phone (app)
Favorites
Swish
Edi
Scroll down
Done

Shit, it didn't work.
Take deep breath.

Try again.

Phone (app)
Letter G
Your name
Edit
Delete contact

Wipe eyes.

Delete contact

All contacts screen
Middle button

Phone off.

Death can delete you
from
my phone
but not
my heart.

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