The Message

I had sent a reminder to the family, you included, to try to win a home in Miami, our old home, the family’s roots, and still central core, to try to win a way back home, to try to win you back home.

But my email sent to you had bounced back, your address had permanently failed mailer-daemon said, my message to you had permanently failed to reach you.

Now all I have is my poetry, this site, a “public” forum, I know, or at least as public to the five people in our family who read it. But still, how else am I to reach you— that is— if I in fact do? How else can I hope that our connection isn’t a permanent failure?