Chloe Goes to College

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Robbie Gamble

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Last night I saw the Subaru in my dreams. 
Now they have dragged my dog bed from the trunk, 
stuffed it with boxes, tote bags, a duffel big enough 
to hold three of me. This is not a good sign. 
Luggage means absence, and though I do not 
know how to mark the passage of time, I feel  
somehow a big wait is coming before I will  
get to see her again. Emmett, she cries, as she 
hauls me into her lap, drapes herself across 
my ribs. She is my first love, and I am hers. 
I am sure of this. She has been absent more 
and more lately, and I lie across the threshold 
to her room, not knowing what threshold means: 
something about loneliness, distance, change. 

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Robbie Gamble‘s dog, Emmett, striking a morose pose.

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Robbie Gamble (he/him) is the author of A Can of Pinto Beans (Lily Poetry Review Press, 2022). His poems have appeared in DIALOGIST, Post Road, RHINO, Salamander, and The Sun. He divides his time between Boston and Vermont.

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