Nigeria

First published in Solitary Plover #33, Winter 2021, page 10. Originally written in July of 2019.       +

I check my spam filter

     at least once a day

looking for that errant email

     I actually want

amid the Viagra discounts

     and untold riches promised me

     from Nigeria.

Not even there do I find a message from you,

     as if you could write from the grave.

But I keep catching myself, looking.