I close my eyes and listen for your voice over the rainfall.

Welcome to Artemesia Station. The next train at Platform 7A is the 4:23 PM service to Poseidon and Triton Riverside.

You are gone forever, but the tempo of your recorded words soothes the hurt for just a moment.

Minh-Tam Le is a physician assistant living in Winston-Salem, NC. Her work has most recently appeared in Snapdragon A Journal of Art and Healing, and she was a winner in the Writer’s Digest 20^th Annual Poetry Awards, Chapbook category.