- Everyday she writes another one,
- the flimsy little sheet that folds
- into itself to make an envelope.
- What can she find to say when
- she just wrote to him yesterday?
- She writes the address that doesn't
- mean anything, doesn't say where he is
- ComDesWesPacFor FPO SF Calif
- then puts one sweetpea on the paper
- and folds it into an envelope. She grows
- the sweetpeas, under the window,
- at the edge of the victory garden.
- Everything grows here, all year,
- so there's always a sweetpea for the mail.
- The girl wonders if they still smell sweet
- when they get to ComDesWesPacFor.
