Oreste Belletto

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Away

I saw my friend to the bus
with a number of tears that didn't fall,
and this way made the loss
that much more powerful.

Instead of tears, a friendship
rolled away. To be renewed
perhaps, if in years I stoop
to recry the sadness I now undid.

Oreste Belletto is 52, and living in San Francisco. He has a master's in poetry from UC Davis. He has had poems published in Byline Magazine, Exquisite Corpse, The Lilliput Review, and nycbigcitylit.com, and has work pending publication from Zoetic Press, Eclectica Magazine, and Midway Journal.