Ten Years Later
Dear Clarendon You might be a little confused by this letter considering I’ve been back to visit you a few times since I matriculated and never felt the need to write to you but rather about you. I’ve been back for the All Girls Festival in 2018 , I was invited to be a guest speaker at a prize giving many years ago, I came for a poetry writing workshop a few years ago and I attended the regional gathering of old girls a few months ago. You may also wonder why I have such big feelings when it comes to you. Something happened this weekend and I just want to sit with the warm and fuzzies for a little while and let the moment simmer. I decided to come with my sister for this reunion. Ten years ago when I came back for my first reunion I felt a strange kind of loneliness I had not anticipated. Since then I have not quite resolved my relationship with you nor East London even as mama is now back in the city albeit living in an old age home. As a result of this discomfort, you Clarendon, see...
