Things I Lost While Moving

Emma Kinzley

A Ziploc bag of mechanical pencils

2 rechargeable AAA batteries

A stainless steel LinQuest water bottle

Left somewhere at Stansted Airport

My best friend from high school

Disappearing into the Insta-ether

My sense of peace in Seattle

Now so empty next to London

A scuffed black minifridge

And a fluffy white husband pillow

I couldn’t fit in my Mom’s old Lexus

An outdated version of myself

That now seems irrelevant

My black leather backpack

That broke on the Seoul subway

The way you used to look at me

A white cotton Muji sock, left foot

A brother who’s shorter than me

An old tube of soybean eye cream

A good night’s sleep

I'm an English major at the UW, and I've moved around a lot, and no matter how meticulously I pack, something always gets left behind, so I decided to write a poem about it.