Zina Gomez-Liss

Tell-Tale

The love-notes you gave me before

Are sealed beneath the wooden floor,


Under the plank that once was loose.

I nailed it down—and now I choose


To carefully recall the time

When our romance was in its prime.


You fled so fast—it felt like theft,

And what you broke is all that’s left. 

Zina Gomez-Liss is a poetry student in the MFA program at the University of St. Thomas, Houston. She lives in Boston, MA, with her husband and five children.  Zina's writing can be found on her substack, The Beauty of Things.