42opus
is an online magazine of the literary arts.
6 February 2008 | Vol. 7, No. 4
Epistolary
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Those things I said, I meant.
But here is the letter I should have sent:
Dear BLANK.
I shall be brief, but frank,
Terse if not curt, aloof, though unswerving—
What little we had amounted to nothing.
And yet I write you this missive, as if.
I sit on a sandbank as I scribe this,
For tonight the twilit beach is impossibly
Gorgeous. No wind, no fog, no moody
Sorts of weather. No the